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    ArmenPress
    Feb 23 2005

    KLO ACCUSES AZERI JOURNALISTS OF ADVERTISING KARABAGH ARMENIANS

    BAKU, FEBRUARY 23, ARMENPRESS: The Karabagh Liberation
    Organization (KLO), an extremist group in Azerbaijan, has accused a
    leading journalists Eynulla Fatullayev of advertising in favor of
    Karabagh separatists. The KLO criticism followed an interview by
    Fatullayev to Azerbaijani newspaper Yeni Musavat on 22 February.
    Eynulla Fatullayev, editor of the Monitor magazine and prominent
    journalist, spent 11 days in Nagorno Karabagh, visiting places in the
    occupied districts of Nagorno Karabagh, talking to Armenians and even
    Azerbaijanis there. She said to the daily she came back with pleasant
    impressions.
    She traveled to Karabagh from Yerevan on February 12 , visiting
    Stepanakert, Shushi, Lachin and Agdam and actually was the first
    Azerbaijani to visit Agdam after the truce. "I was treated well in
    Agdam and Shushi , but the attitude towards me was aggressive in
    Lachin. The Armenians living there attacked me, saying that this is
    their land and wondered about the aim of my visit. However, my
    security was arranged very well. I asked them who they are and they
    said they are refugees from villages of Agdara District, which is
    under Azerbaijani control. There are also Armenians from Yevlakh and
    Baku in Lachin," she said.
    She also interviewed Karabagh leader Arkady Ghukasian and the
    mayor of Stepanakert and met met some Azerbaijanis in Askeran, where
    a dozen of them are still living.
    She said Armenian journalists were keen on her views about the
    ongoing processes in Karabagh. "I said that the switch from the
    police regime to a semi-civil society had taken place in Karabagh and
    free polls were held, the opposition won, the media was free and
    there was political rivalry. Political freedom is stronger there than
    in Armenia. At all meetings, they wondered about public opinion in
    Azerbaijan. My impression of the meetings with the Karabagh political
    leadership is that they are ready for horizontal relations with
    Azerbaijan," she said. "My observation is that they (Karabagh people)
    hate the Azerbaijani authorities, not our people," she said.
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