Armenian Community of Malta indignant over Euronews reporting on
Nagorno Karabakh
06.02.2010 11:42 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Community of Malta expresses its
outrage and disappointment with `Forgotten Victims of Frozen Conflict’
Euronews reporting dated February 1, 2010.
`We think it is incorrect to give such a free and one-sided
interpretation to UN resolutions on Nagorno Karabakh conflict, as well
as to approve and broadcast calls for war that were heard in the
reporting,’ the community said in a statement.
`We truly hope that one of the most respectable and tolerant channels
of Europe as Euronews is henceforth will be more delicate and tactful
in broadcasting of such reportings, especially taking into
consideration that there are the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations as
a background.
We are very hopeful that the changes in the membership of the
shareholders of the Euronews channel do not have any influence on its
work and not in any way impact the neutrality that a television
channel should possess,’ it said, the Press-service of the Armenian
Diaspora of Malta reported.
The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in
1988 as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the
final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991
to 1994. Since the ceasefire in 1994, sealed by Armenia, NKR and
Azerbaijan, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions of Azerbaijan
around it (the security zone) remain under the control of NKR defense
army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the
OSCE Minsk Group up till now.