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    PRESS-SERVICE OF NKR FOREIGN MINISTRY DIRECTS AN OPEN LETTER TO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF 'BERLINER ZEITUNG'

    ArmInfo
    2009-11-05 15:43:00

    ArmInfo. Press-service of the NKR Foreign Ministry has directed an
    open letter to the editor-in-chief of because of an article of one
    of its correspondents.

    As ArmInfo correspondent reported from Stepanakert, the letter says:
    'Having personally visited the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, Berliner
    Zeitung newspaper's correspondent, if even desired, couldn't but notice
    that the people who had experienced terrible hardships, destructions,
    and grief in an unequal struggle had, however, managed to realize its
    right to self-determination, heroically stand all the calamities of the
    war, restore its state infrastructure, and implement radical reforms
    for establishing a state corresponding to the European standards.

    After the World War II, the Germans dreamed for an integrated state
    and lived with this idea tens of years. We don't think that the German
    nation's aspiration can be questioned by any other nation.

    Exactly 20 years ago, the Berlin separating wall was destroyed in just
    a few days by the will of the great powers, and the Germans not only
    reunited, but also gained full- fledged independence, on the occasion
    of which we congratulate this distinctive and gifted nation of the
    Old World.

    Nagorno Karabakh gained its independence, having, first of all,
    neutralized the Azerbaijani aggression, defending the lives of
    children, women, and old people. Just that's why nobody can question
    the will and right of Nagorno Karabakh's people to independence. In
    other words, nobody brought the independence and right to free life to
    Nagorno Karabakh on a tray. And if today's population of our Republic
    makes only 140 thousand, then it is also a vivid demonstration of
    Azerbaijan's evident anti- Armenian policy; otherwise, over a million
    and a half of Karabakhi Armenians and their descendants would not be
    citizens of other states today. So, like Germans in the recent past,
    today we are also striving for our sovereignty.

    The Germans have, for many years, cherished as relics the stones
    and fragments of the once separating Berlin Wall. The situation is
    totally different in Nagorno Karabakh. Here, the shrines are the
    marble tombstones of soldiers perished at the Karabakh War for the
    independence of their homeland. The correspondent of your newspaper
    could not but notice that.

    Unfortunately, we should state that having overcome thousand
    kilometers, journalist Tobias Asmuth presented a superficial and
    distorted article to the readers of the newspaper, without inquiring
    the causes and essence of the Karabakh issue. Similarly, the author
    could easily write a number of analogous articles, staying at home
    and using various sites.

    However, if freedom of speech and press is equivalent to a sin against
    truth for the Berliner Zeitung, then it is quite a different matter.'
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