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Azerba ijan is offended by `Euronews’ for `pro-Karabakh’ report
By Georg Khachaturyan
Published: 02 December, 2009
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan is upset over a Euronews
TV broadcast on Nagorno-Karabakh, in which the self-proclaimed
republic was referred to as `a real Armenian region’.
The program aired last week, prompting a protest from the Azeris who
wrote a letter to the France-based network accusing it of a `one-sided
portrayal of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.’
The report by presenter Michael Raikhman `Nagorno-Karabakh: Wind of
Change’, included comments by Armenian studies Professor Bernard
Coulie in which he said: `Karabakh is a fascinating region which has
very much the same culture as Armenia. We are in a real Armenian
region with a Christian background, which is very important. We are in
the heart of Armenia but not in a political sense. That is also very
interesting.’
Official Baku took issue, too, with the report identifying Bako
Sahakyan as President of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.
(Azerbaijan, and most international bodies, maintain that NKR remains
a disputed enclave of Azerbaijan and that its government is
illegitimate.)
As Azeri Trend News Agency reports, the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan
assigned a commission at the Embassy of Azerbaijan to France to
investigate the reasons of the occurrence of such a news coverage on
Euronews.
Euronews TV, founded in 1993, broadcasts in 135 countries, with an
estimated 248 million viewers.
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