State Telegraph Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan
March 5, 2010 Friday

YAP SENDS PROTEST LETTER TO RUSSIA`S NEZAVISIMAYA QAZETA ON
PUBLICATION OF PRO-ARMENIAN ARTICLE

Baku March 5

The New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) sent a letter of protest to the Russian
Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper on the article by a certain Sergey
Zvyagin dedicated to the Khojaly genocide (Khojaly: the Truth and
Falsification), and published in the March 5 issue of the newspaper.

The author, without any serious investigation and analysis, tries to
blame Azerbaijan in the Khojaly events and openly backs the position
of Armenians, the letter says. Zvyagin attempts to characterize the
Sumgait events (1988) and the intrusion of the imperial troops to Baku
(1990) as the massacre against the Armenians. The journalist goes
beyond, accusing Azerbaijan in misrepresentation of these events and
noisy propaganda campaign it allegedly carries out together with
Turkey.

The New Azerbaijan Party urges on Nezavisimaya Gazeta to be unbiased
in writing such complicated materials on ethnic conflicts and not
distort the facts. Such position misleads the readers, harms
reputation of the newspaper and contradicts the fundamental principles
of journalism, the letter underlines.