ABC NEWS REMOVES KARABAKH FROM ITS TRAVEL FEATURE
BY ARA KHACHATOURIAN

asbarez
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

The ABCNews.com page featuring Nagorno-Karabakh

ABCNews.com removed a segment of a feature that recommended traveling
to Nagorno-Karabakh as one the “Great Offbeat Places to Go in 2012.”

In a travel segment posted on Sunday on abcnews.com entitled “7 Great
Offbeat Places to Go in 2012” ranked Nagorno-Karabakh as one of the
places to visit during the year. On Tuesday afternoon, however, the
piece was re-titled “6 Great Offbeat Places to Go in 2012” and the
section on Nagorno-Karabakh was extracted from the original. Reader
comments were not extracted from the Web site.

“Stay at the recently-built Armenia Hotel in the capital, Stepanakert,
and use the city as your base to explore the region. Go hiking through
snow-topped mountains and fields of yellow and red flowers. Feast on
shish kebob and grilled vegetables. If you’re staying with a local,
don’t be surprised if you’re offered homemade mulberry vodka with
breakfast,” recommended the post.

“Don’t miss the Gandzasar Monastery, meaning ‘hilltop treasure,’
built in the 10th century. Visit it at night to see it lit up in the
darkness,” added the feature.

News.Az reported that the Azeri Foreign Ministry has urged the
Azerbaijani Embassy in Washington to investigate the matter, according
to Azeri foreign ministry spokesperon Elman Abdullayev.

While Asbarez is following up on this developing story with ABC News,
readers are encouraged to go to the article’s comment section and
ask why the section about Nagorno-Karabakh was removed.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress