BAKU: Illegal broadcasting to be stopped

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan
March 10 2004

ILLEGAL BROADCASTING TO BE STOPPED
[March 10, 2004, 17:15:37]

In connection with broadcasting of Armenian TV programs in several
regions of Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Communications and Information
Technologies has raised the problem before the regional communication
organization functioning within the framework of the Commonwealth of
Independent States. At he organization’s invitation, officials of the
Communication Ministry visited Moscow, where representatives of
Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia through the mediation of the regional
communication organization, have negotiated on elimination of the
problem emerged due to coordination of TV channels broadcasting.

The meeting participants have reached the agreement on suppression of
Armenian TV channels’ broadcasting in the territory of Azerbaijan,
and signed appropriate protocol.