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AZERBAIJANI MEDIA STILL TRYING TO JUSTIFY THEIR DEFEAT
Marina Ananikyan
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 3, 2010
The best thing Azerbaijani journalists can do is to accept the reality
and think over their unworthy behavior.
Azerbaijani media representatives do not give up attempts to justify
their defeat at the 17th exhibition festival of press and news agencies
in Tehran.
It's extremely interesting to watch desperate and inconsequent efforts
to authorize the barbarian methods of problem resolution they inherited
from nomad predecessors.
Azerbaijani journalists do not break off the habit of laying the blame
at someone else's doorstep. They seem to have forgotten about their
own threats to boycott the exhibition in case the photograph of We
and Our Mountains Armenian monument is stuck back to the Armenian
stand and slammed the decision of the Armenian delegation to quit
participation in the event as "stupid".
Although it's obvious that should the photograph be returned to its
place, the Azerbaijani delegation would not cease its participation in
"such an internationally important event, where media representatives
from over 50 countries gather" [quotation from Azeri media reports].
As for Turkish delegation, they would hardly spoil relations with
their Iranian colleagues because of "younger brothers and sisters."
Accusations of some Azeri media that the "Armenian journalists are
scared to enter in competition with their Azerbaijani colleagues,
who achieved progress in dismissing Armenian propaganda lies"
are ridiculous.
Competition implies civilized manners to resolve problems, which
still remains unknown for our "neighbors." A question arouses: can
men's aggressive attacks at two young girls representing Armenia
at the exhibition be described as civilized? Or can the offences of
Azerbaijani female journalists whose voice range can be compared to
that of boisterous women be called a well-bred speech? Certainly NO!
Moreover, competition can hardly suggest tearing off the Armenian
map from the stand.
Delayed attempts to justify such unworthy behavior will have no
result. Azerbaijani journalists could not suppose that Yekaterina
Poghosyan and Hasmik Harutyunyan were not easily frightened and did
not surrender either to numerical superiority of Azeris or their
boorishness.
So, the best thing Azerbaijani journalists can do is to accept the
reality and think over their behavior.
A photograph of Artsakh's symbol - We and Our Mountains memorial
- which was featured in the Armenian pavilion at the 17th media
exhibition in Tehran, where Armenia is represented by PanARMENIAN.Net
news agency and Azg newspaper, aroused indignation of the Azerbaijani
delegation. While the correspondents from PanARMENIAN.Net and Azg were
preparing their pavilion for opening, the Azerbaijanis were closely
following the action. After the map of Armenia and Artsakh Republic
was stuck to the stand, they first demanded that the map and the image
of the monument should be removed but then, without waiting for any
decision by the exhibition management, one of them burst into the
pavilion and tore away the map. It's also worth mentioning that the
Azerbaijanis called the Turkish delegation to protect their interests.
Attempts to draw the infuriated Azerbaijani aside attracted attention
of a dozen of foreign attendees.
The next morning the Armenian journalists saw that the photograph of
the monument was removed from the stand.
The event organizers stated that the photograph of the monument will
be returned to its place, while the Azerbaijanis were warned to stay
away from the Armenian pavilion. However, the promise was not kept.
As a result, the Armenian delegation took the decision to boycott the
exhibition, issuing the following statement of explanation: "Dear
colleagues, we, the correspondents of PanARMENIAN.Net news agency
and Azg newspaper, representing Armenia at the exhibition festival of
press and information agencies, apologize for ceasing our participation
over the unsatisfactory organization of the event, during which media
freedom is being infringed and limitations are imposed on materials
providing information about our country. We express our indignation at
the fact that the exhibition organizers disallow placement of We and
Our Mountains monument image on our stand, thus yielding to provocative
acts of the Azerbaijani delegation, which used the event to push on
anti-Armenian propaganda and claims to the historical Armenian land,
Artsakh. With the exhibition organizers failing to keep their promise
and return the photograph of the monument to the Armenian pavilion
as well as to ensure security of the Armenian delegation, we consider
our further participation in the event to be impossible."
Thanks to assistance of Armenian Ambassador to Tehran Grigor Arakelyan,
the Armenian journalists will come back to Yerevan on the night of
October 30, several days prior to the scheduled date of return.
From: A. Papazian
Marina Ananikyan
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 3, 2010
The best thing Azerbaijani journalists can do is to accept the reality
and think over their unworthy behavior.
Azerbaijani media representatives do not give up attempts to justify
their defeat at the 17th exhibition festival of press and news agencies
in Tehran.
It's extremely interesting to watch desperate and inconsequent efforts
to authorize the barbarian methods of problem resolution they inherited
from nomad predecessors.
Azerbaijani journalists do not break off the habit of laying the blame
at someone else's doorstep. They seem to have forgotten about their
own threats to boycott the exhibition in case the photograph of We
and Our Mountains Armenian monument is stuck back to the Armenian
stand and slammed the decision of the Armenian delegation to quit
participation in the event as "stupid".
Although it's obvious that should the photograph be returned to its
place, the Azerbaijani delegation would not cease its participation in
"such an internationally important event, where media representatives
from over 50 countries gather" [quotation from Azeri media reports].
As for Turkish delegation, they would hardly spoil relations with
their Iranian colleagues because of "younger brothers and sisters."
Accusations of some Azeri media that the "Armenian journalists are
scared to enter in competition with their Azerbaijani colleagues,
who achieved progress in dismissing Armenian propaganda lies"
are ridiculous.
Competition implies civilized manners to resolve problems, which
still remains unknown for our "neighbors." A question arouses: can
men's aggressive attacks at two young girls representing Armenia
at the exhibition be described as civilized? Or can the offences of
Azerbaijani female journalists whose voice range can be compared to
that of boisterous women be called a well-bred speech? Certainly NO!
Moreover, competition can hardly suggest tearing off the Armenian
map from the stand.
Delayed attempts to justify such unworthy behavior will have no
result. Azerbaijani journalists could not suppose that Yekaterina
Poghosyan and Hasmik Harutyunyan were not easily frightened and did
not surrender either to numerical superiority of Azeris or their
boorishness.
So, the best thing Azerbaijani journalists can do is to accept the
reality and think over their behavior.
A photograph of Artsakh's symbol - We and Our Mountains memorial
- which was featured in the Armenian pavilion at the 17th media
exhibition in Tehran, where Armenia is represented by PanARMENIAN.Net
news agency and Azg newspaper, aroused indignation of the Azerbaijani
delegation. While the correspondents from PanARMENIAN.Net and Azg were
preparing their pavilion for opening, the Azerbaijanis were closely
following the action. After the map of Armenia and Artsakh Republic
was stuck to the stand, they first demanded that the map and the image
of the monument should be removed but then, without waiting for any
decision by the exhibition management, one of them burst into the
pavilion and tore away the map. It's also worth mentioning that the
Azerbaijanis called the Turkish delegation to protect their interests.
Attempts to draw the infuriated Azerbaijani aside attracted attention
of a dozen of foreign attendees.
The next morning the Armenian journalists saw that the photograph of
the monument was removed from the stand.
The event organizers stated that the photograph of the monument will
be returned to its place, while the Azerbaijanis were warned to stay
away from the Armenian pavilion. However, the promise was not kept.
As a result, the Armenian delegation took the decision to boycott the
exhibition, issuing the following statement of explanation: "Dear
colleagues, we, the correspondents of PanARMENIAN.Net news agency
and Azg newspaper, representing Armenia at the exhibition festival of
press and information agencies, apologize for ceasing our participation
over the unsatisfactory organization of the event, during which media
freedom is being infringed and limitations are imposed on materials
providing information about our country. We express our indignation at
the fact that the exhibition organizers disallow placement of We and
Our Mountains monument image on our stand, thus yielding to provocative
acts of the Azerbaijani delegation, which used the event to push on
anti-Armenian propaganda and claims to the historical Armenian land,
Artsakh. With the exhibition organizers failing to keep their promise
and return the photograph of the monument to the Armenian pavilion
as well as to ensure security of the Armenian delegation, we consider
our further participation in the event to be impossible."
Thanks to assistance of Armenian Ambassador to Tehran Grigor Arakelyan,
the Armenian journalists will come back to Yerevan on the night of
October 30, several days prior to the scheduled date of return.
From: A. Papazian