Baku deplores biased Euronews report
Baku has denounced a report on the Upper (Nagorno)
Garabagh conflict defying Azerbaijan broadcast on Monday by the
Euronews television channel.
The Foreign Ministry has sent a letter to Euronews deploring the unilateral coverage of the situation in Upper Garabagh, said its spokesman Elkhan Polukhov, adding that Baku had demanded to prevent the biased footage from airing again.
The report, "Upper Garabagh: a wind of change", gave a biased assessment of the war fought by Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. It regarded the self-proclaimed Upper Garabagh republic as "an independent state" while describing the current situation in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, and separatist leader Bako Saakian was presented as ‘Upper Garabagh’s president." No Azerbaijani officials were approached for comments on the Garabagh conflict.
Polukhov labeled the report as unprofessional and a violation of journalistic ethics. According to him, the Foreign Ministry has also instructed the Azerbaijani embassy in France to look into the reasons for such a biased broadcast on Euronews, which is based in the French town of Lyon.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a cease-fire in 1994, but Armenia continues to occupy Upper Garabagh and seven other Azerbaijani districts in defiance of international law. Despite numerous rounds of OSCE-brokered negotiations, peace talks have been fruitless so far and refugees remain stranded.*
The Foreign Ministry has sent a letter to Euronews deploring the unilateral coverage of the situation in Upper Garabagh, said its spokesman Elkhan Polukhov, adding that Baku had demanded to prevent the biased footage from airing again.
The report, "Upper Garabagh: a wind of change", gave a biased assessment of the war fought by Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. It regarded the self-proclaimed Upper Garabagh republic as "an independent state" while describing the current situation in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, and separatist leader Bako Saakian was presented as ‘Upper Garabagh’s president." No Azerbaijani officials were approached for comments on the Garabagh conflict.
Polukhov labeled the report as unprofessional and a violation of journalistic ethics. According to him, the Foreign Ministry has also instructed the Azerbaijani embassy in France to look into the reasons for such a biased broadcast on Euronews, which is based in the French town of Lyon.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a cease-fire in 1994, but Armenia continues to occupy Upper Garabagh and seven other Azerbaijani districts in defiance of international law. Despite numerous rounds of OSCE-brokered negotiations, peace talks have been fruitless so far and refugees remain stranded.*
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