ELNUR BAIMOV: "THE PROBLEM OF THE SPREAD OF ARMENIAN DISINFORMATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FORMATION OF A COMMON ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN-AZERBAIJANI INFORMATION FIELD"
Today.Az
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Feb 11 2009
Azerbaijan
"This is a recognition of one’s unprofessionalism and inobjectiveness
which is concealed under some external factors, that is called
conspiraphobia", said editor-in-chief of Day.Az news agency Elnur
Baimov commenting on the statement of the director of news programs of
Yerkir-Media television company Gegam Manukyan who said the situation
today is that the region has two fronts with Armenia on the one
hand and a coalition of mass medias of Georgia and Azerbaijan on the
other hand.
He said activity of Day.Az is the bright proof of the falseness of
Manukyan’s statement.
"I would remind to those experts who suffer from amnesia and inadequate
assessment of the reality that Day.Az interviewed such representatives
of the powers of Armenia that occupied 20% of Azerbaijani lands,
as Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and speaker of Armenian
National Assembly Tigran Torosyan. We also interviewed ambassador
extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Armenia to Russia Armen Smbatyan
as well as the president of the union of Russian Armenians Ara
Abramyan, who has repeatedly organized visits of Russian "stars"
to the occupied lands of Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh.
Day.Az also interviewed Armenian culture figures, including great
Armen Cigarhanyan and wonderful film director Roman Balayan.
Leading Armenian politicians, political scientists and human rights
activists are frequent responders of Day.Az.
We also have the Novosti-Armenia column on our website.
Thus, as is seen Day.Az has provided and will provide opportunity for
the leading Armenian political and cultural figures to voice their
opinion and we provide full information about life in Armenia.
So what else should an Azerbaijani website Day.Az do to create a
common information area with Armenia, to provide Armenian side with
an chance to voice its opinion on the problems existing in the region?
The same area for voicing its opinion about the developments in
the South Caucasus region is provided by Georgian mass medias. It
means that violation of the rights of Armenian side in the field of
formation of a common information area is out of the question.
Another question is that Armenian side has great problems in
disinforming world community about the situation in the South
Caycasus. In particular, Armenian mass medias have problems of
spreading lie about situation in the Armenian-settlement region
of Georgia Samtskhe-Javakheti, the process of the resolution of the
Karabakh conflict and the real political and economic situation in our
region, where Armenia is the most backward state due to conduction of
the occupational policy and permanent territorial claims of its powers.
The fresh proof of the "work" of Armenian mass medias is the recent
lie of Panarmenian agency about the alleged pogrom of Jews in Sumgayit.
In this sense, I understand the "efforts" of the Armenian "experts. But
the problem of the spread of Armenian disinformation has nothing
to do with the formation of a common Armenian-Georgian-Azerbaijani
information field.
And the last. We are proud that Day.Az is the most popular and quoted
news agency in the South Caucasus and Middle Asia. But neither we nor
Georgian mass medias are responsible for the backwardness of Armenian
mass medias. This true should be accepted by all those Armenian
"experts" who shift the blame for their lack of professionalism on
others", concluded Elnur Baimov.