* Azerbaijani Embassy achieved removal of trailer wrongly showing
Azerbaijani map from Russian channels *
APA
*[ 24 Jul 2007 20:25 ]*
* Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia achieved to remove the preview trailer,
which was misrepresenting Azerbaijan’s map misleading the opinion of Russian
community, the TV channels of the country. *
APA reports quoting Azertag state agency that mobile communication operator
Megaphone OPSC presented Azerbaijani territory as Armenian territory in the
geographical map in the trailer on making phone calls to the CIS countries.
Morover, the map does not show Azerbaijani capital, Baku, while shows not
only Armenian capital but also medieval town Armavir .
Azerbaijani embassy officially demanded Megaphone OPSC to correct the
mistake regarding Azerbaijan on the map. And the trailer was removed from
the channels from July 18. The Company expressed sorry for the
misrepresentation on the map and thanked the Embassy for the appeal.
Megaphone said in the letter that it was an unpleasant misunderstanding and
was not deliberately made in order to misrepresent factual information on
the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, sovereignty and internationally
recognized boundaries. /APA/