Baku protests at Kyiv over biased documentary
Baku has expressed protest to Kyiv over the broadcasting of a
film defying Azerbaijan on the Ukrainian private TV channel Inter.
The Azerbaijani embassy in this country has sent a note to
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Talat Aliyev said.
The documentary, which was aired on Sunday, provided biased
information about the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict and
presented the occupied ancient Azerbaijani town of Shusha as
Armenian land.
Along with the protest note, Azerbaijan’s diplomatic mission has
forwarded an enquiry to the TV channel’s administration.
Also, the Azerbaijani community in Ukraine has voiced its protest
to Inter in a letter, demanding that the broadcaster air a program
expressing Azerbaijan’s position.
A fragile ceasefire has been in place in the region since a brutal
war there in the 1990s that claimed some 30,000 lives and displaced
about one million Azerbaijanis from their homes. Armenia continues
to occupy Upper Garabagh and seven adjacent Azerbaijani districts
in defiance of international law. The ceasefire accord was signed
in 1994, but the OSCE-brokered peace talks have been fruitless so
far. Azerbaijan has never ruled out military action to liberate its
land and has spent billions on dollars on building up its
military.*
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