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    ARMENIA'S REPRESENTATIVES REJECT FURTHER PARTICIPATION IN MEDIA EXHIBITION IN IRAN

    PanARMENIAN.Net -
    October 29, 2010 - 14:54 AMT 09:54 GMT

    The organizers of the 17th international exhibition festival of
    press and information agencies, where Armenia is represented by
    PanARMENIAN.Net news agency and Azg newspaper, asked the Armenian
    journalists to continue participation in the event but were rejected
    due to the failure to return the photograph of the Armenian monument
    to the Armenian pavilion.

    Therefore, the event organizers said they will not pay for
    accommodation of the Armenian delegation any more.

    Thanks to the efforts 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.

    Besides, PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent Yekaterina Poghosyan reported
    that yesterday, October 28, the exhibition managers collected the
    Armenian delegation's statement from other participants.

    Earlier, when Armenian journalists started distributing the statement,
    one of the exhibition organizers approached them and said that
    participants have no right to circulate any documents in the exhibit
    hall. In response, Armenia's representatives showed a "book" about
    Nagorno Karabakh, which is being distributed by the Azerbaijani
    delegation among the other participants of the event.

    Representative of the organizing committee said he is unaware of it
    and promised to collect those books. However, the attempt to take
    away the edition from the Armenian journalists did not succeed.

    Although circulation of the statement was barred, the other
    participants of the exhibition had a possibility to familiarize
    themselves with the text reading: "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."

    It worth mentioning that the other delegations support the Armenian
    journalists and intend to issue a complaint over the improper
    organization of the event.

    "As the Iranian side failed to keep its promise and return the
    photograph of We and Our Mountains memorial, placing a photo of
    Yerevan fountains instead, we took the decision to boycott the
    event,"PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent Yekaterina Poghosyan said.

    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 aroused indignation of the Azerbaijani delegation. While
    the correspondents from PanARMENIAN.Net and Azg were preparing their
    pavilion for opening on October 25, 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.

    After talks with Armenia's Ambassador to Iran Grigor Arakelyan,
    the organizers promised to return the photo but then went back on
    their word.




    From: A. Papazian
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