OFFICIAL BAKU WANTS TO BAN EURONEWS BROADCASTING IN AZERBAIJAN

ArmInfo
2010-02-18 16:44:00

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan has not come to terms with the reportage on
Euronews TV channel "Nagorno-Karabakh – the Wind of Change" telling
about the history and culture of the region, Karabakh conflict,
today’s life of Armenian refugees, and Nagorno-Karabakh is called
the Christian heart of Armenia. According to Azerbaijani sources,
Azeri MP Aidyn Mirzazade said that the Azeri parliament may resume the
debates on the issue on Euronews. "The fact of repeated placement of
the biased and unilateral reportage on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
at the Euronews website desolates, and this issue may be included in
the agenda of the next sitting of parliament",- he said.

The heart-rending foreign political yelling of official Baku, numerous
notes of protest, pickets and letters full of indignation seem to
have done their part. Euronews has prepared another material on the
same topic. This time Euronews has gone to the camp of Azerbaijani
refugees to show the problem from their point of view. In Yerevan
nobody has raised hysteria about this. As regards the reportage, it has
not saved the situation, failing to cool the ardor of the Azerbaijani
dynastic regime which is really convinced that information should be
disseminated the way it is used to do, i.e. by using the mass media
to manipulate the public opinion and inculcate the image of Armenians
as enemies.

Taking into account the recent Euronews interview with Ilham Aliyev,
who was asked a number of "delicate" questions about the lack of
democracy, to be more precise, about the presence of authoritarianism
in his state, one can suppose that in an easy state of mind of MPs
the given TV channel in Azerbaijan will have the same destiny as the
other Western mass media "Liberty" or "Voice of America". To recall,
the broadcasting of these mass media was banned in Azerbaijan because
the latters dared to say what ran counter to the official viewpoint
of Aliyev, who is used to keep all the information sources under
strict control.