A CALL VOICED FROM STEPANAKERT TO MASS MEDIA OF AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA AND NAGORNO KARABAKH TO REFUSE PUBLISHING MATERIALS WHICH SPREADS RACIAL HATRED AND PROPAGANDA WAR

ArmInfo
2010-05-07 14:33:00

ArmInfo. "I suggest the leaders of mass media and journalist
organizations of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh to stop
hostile actions in the information field beginning from 12:01 AM on
May 12, 2010. It means, first of all, to refuse publications which
dishonor the whole people and its individual representatives, as well
as the materials which spread racial hatred Stepanakert press-club
Gegham Baghdasaryan to heads of the Armenian, Azerbaijani and Nagorno
Karabakh mass media and journalist organizations says.

"Establishment of ceasefire regime in 1994 on the Karabakh front
played an important part in termination of the armed conflict
and activation of the negotiating process among the parties to
the conflict. However, it turned out to be insufficient for final
settlement of the conflict. Moreover, a state of "neither peace nor
war" and absence of any official interstate relations over the last
years not only aggravated the tension in the conflict region but more
burden the pan of "neither peace" on the military-political scales of
"neither war nor peace". Unfortunately, mass media play an unseemly
part here", the message says.

In this complicated situation, on the threshold of the 16th anniversary
of signing a ceasefire agreement of May 12, 1994, Baghdasaryan thinks
it is necessary to come forward with an initiative of "ceasefire"
in the information field of all the parties to the conflict. "I am
sure that cessation of the information war will create favourable
conditions for continuation of the peaceful dialogue. It will promote
achievement of real compromises and mutually acceptable solutions on
the Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as to rapprochement of the
parties’ media stances in this issue", Baghdasaryan said.