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Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov has said a biased policy is behind the recent Euronews report that branded the Armenia-occupied Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh region of Azerbaijan as an independent state.
He told the press Monday that it would be wrong to interpret the unilateral footage broadcast on the TV channel merely as lack of professionalism.
"The way I see this -- someone is doing this deliberately on Euronews, because continuous broadcasting of a biasedly compiled footage for several days running does not just show unprofessionalism of the journalists, there is politics involved here."
Azerbaijanis living and studying in France plan to protest on Friday outside the Euronews office, which is based in the French town of Lyon. According to Azerbaijan’s Ireli (Forward) public union supporting the initiative, Azerbaijani youths residing in other European countries are expected to join the protest.
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."
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry earlier sent a letter to Euronews deploring the unilateral coverage of the situation in Upper Garabagh.
Peter Bаrabas, Euronews executive, claimed that the TV channel’s main goal was to describe the living standards of the people affected by the Garabagh conflict and that the broadcaster had not intended to interfere with the political aspects of the issue. Bаrabas pledged that, to keep the balance, Euronews is looking to prepare a program about the Azerbaijani refugees.*