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POLAD BULBULOGLU: "ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI MEDIA SHOULD PUT AN END TO CULTIVATE THE IMAGE OF THE ENEMY"
APA, Azerbaijan
Sept 27 2013
[ 27 September 2013 12:49 ]
Baku. Victoria Dementyeva - APA. "The representatives of civil
society in Armenia and Azerbaijan should continue to try to find
common ground," the chairman of the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian
Cooperation, Representative of Azerbaijan to the Council for
Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS, Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu said at the
Minsk Forum of the CIS member states, APA reports quoting NEWS.am.
Asked about the fate of initiatives to attract intellectuals of the
two countries to create an atmosphere of trust, Polad Bulbuloglu said
that unfortunately, this initiative for some reason does not gain
continuation: "However, we are ready to continue, and Azerbaijan is
interested in it. We have talked about this a lot. Russia supports
this peacekeeping format and the OSCE Minsk Group. But you have to
ask these questions to those who decide it."
"Although many problems have accumulated between our countries and
our peoples, today I do not see any other way than to sit at the
table of peace talks, which have not yet reached their limits,"
said Bulbuloghlu, while pointing to the success of the projects
already implemented.
"It's no secret that the image of the enemy is cultivated in your press
and in our press, and a generation that sees each other as enemies
grows. This cannot be tolerated. Thus, we are laying a mine that will
explode in future generations. But there is the intelligentsia, there
are people who know each other, remember, and should at least use this
potential in order to establish a dialogue," said Bulbuloglu. "Of
course, this does not preclude what our presidents do, or what the
foreign ministers do. But at the level of civil society, at the
level of ordinary people, such work is very important," concluded
Polad Bulbuloglu.
APA, Azerbaijan
Sept 27 2013
[ 27 September 2013 12:49 ]
Baku. Victoria Dementyeva - APA. "The representatives of civil
society in Armenia and Azerbaijan should continue to try to find
common ground," the chairman of the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian
Cooperation, Representative of Azerbaijan to the Council for
Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS, Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu said at the
Minsk Forum of the CIS member states, APA reports quoting NEWS.am.
Asked about the fate of initiatives to attract intellectuals of the
two countries to create an atmosphere of trust, Polad Bulbuloglu said
that unfortunately, this initiative for some reason does not gain
continuation: "However, we are ready to continue, and Azerbaijan is
interested in it. We have talked about this a lot. Russia supports
this peacekeeping format and the OSCE Minsk Group. But you have to
ask these questions to those who decide it."
"Although many problems have accumulated between our countries and
our peoples, today I do not see any other way than to sit at the
table of peace talks, which have not yet reached their limits,"
said Bulbuloghlu, while pointing to the success of the projects
already implemented.
"It's no secret that the image of the enemy is cultivated in your press
and in our press, and a generation that sees each other as enemies
grows. This cannot be tolerated. Thus, we are laying a mine that will
explode in future generations. But there is the intelligentsia, there
are people who know each other, remember, and should at least use this
potential in order to establish a dialogue," said Bulbuloglu. "Of
course, this does not preclude what our presidents do, or what the
foreign ministers do. But at the level of civil society, at the
level of ordinary people, such work is very important," concluded
Polad Bulbuloglu.