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  • Armenians Send A Protest Message To "New York Times" Newspaper

    ARMENIANS SEND A PROTEST MESSAGE TO "NEW YORK TIMES" NEWSPAPER

    Times.am
    June 2 2011
    Armenia

    A message is spread by Facebook social network, which informs about
    an anti-Armenian article published in New York Times on May 31. The
    article is named "Frozen Conflict Between Azerbaijan and Armenia
    Begins to Boil" and aims to present Azerbaijanis as victims,
    confirms Azerbaijani moral right to restart war against NK and
    "restore Azerbaijani territorial completeness". The initiators offer
    Facebook users to send many messages to NY Times editorial and tell
    them truth about NK issue and Azerbaijan. Here is a text of message
    which is offered to be edited, changed somehow, may be shortened.

    "Mr. Bill Keller, I have read Ellen Barry's recent article which caused
    me great frustration. Mrs. Barry's biased approach in the article
    makes me think that the article was written under the influence of
    the Azerbaijani propaganda.

    This article is mostly dedicated to the description of undesirable
    consequences for Azerbaijan that were caused as a result of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. But the author is silent about the fact
    that it was Azerbaijan first to launch an aggressive war against
    Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as to organize the bombing of some border
    areas of Armenia itself. Moreover, both international and Soviet law
    did allow Nagorno-Karabakh to achieve its independence. The fundamental
    human rights of Karabakh Armenian population had been violated for
    decades, and the culmination of violations was the ethnic cleansings
    of late 1980s. The population of Karabakh had the right to exercise
    remedial secession, just as the Eritrea, East Bangladesh, East Timor,
    Kosovo, South Sudan and other cases.

    There are also detailed sad stories of Azerbaijani refugees,
    but the author is tacit about Azerbaijan's brutal policy towards
    its own population. Azerbaijan, unlike Armenia, views its refugees
    only as a tool of its policy. For many years refugees in Azerbaijan
    were not allowed to leave their tent camps as if they were kept in
    concentration camps.

    Mrs. Barry repeats the official position of Azerbaijan and insists
    that the current framework of the OSCE Minsk Group negotiations
    have exhausted itself. But she is silent about the fact that
    the main barrier of progress in the negotiations is Azerbaijan's
    destructive approach of failing the negotiation (incidentally she
    talks as if the international community is negotiating with Armenia
    (yet, the negotiations are between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with the
    participation of Nagorno-Karabakh, and mediated by the OSCE Minsk
    Group Co-Chairs)). The point is that Azerbaijan has been poisoning
    its own population with Armenophobia and revanchism for about two
    decades, and now the government doesn't know what to answer to the
    people of Azerbaijan, when the OSCE Minsk Group mediators insist
    that the status of Karabakh should be decided through a legally
    binding free expression of will of its people. Moreover, calls for
    a new aggression are repeatedly cited in the article, and the author
    treats those calls quite normally.

    However, the OSCE Minsk Group mediators in their statements
    clearly point out that the resumption of war is unacceptable for the
    international community, that the settlement of the conflict should be
    based on a comprehensive application of the three basic principles:
    the prohibition of threat or use of force, self-determination and
    territorial integrity. Mediators also stress that all conflicting
    parties should prepare their people for peace and not for war. In fact,
    the citations of aggression used by the author in fact endorse the
    fact that the international mediators' calls for peace are directed at
    Azerbaijan. Any use of force is clearly prohibited in international
    law, and this time the international community is determined to
    prevent the repetition of such actions by Azerbaijan.

    But from the New York Times' article from May 31 one gets the
    impression that it is natural that Azerbaijan is preparing for war,
    as if it is a party that has been treated unjustly.

    Mr. Keller, I sincerely hope that your editorial would be more
    careful in printing such biased articles in the future. Azerbaijan
    spends millions of dollars for its PR campaign abroad. And I hope
    the New York Times' esteemed reputation can not be marred by the
    petrol-dollars from the Caspian Sea.

    Best Regards"

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