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Ministry of Culture and Tourism denies false reports in â€œFarsâ€ agency and â€œTehran Timesâ€

05 October 2011 16:09 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ulker Gasimova â€“ APA. Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism denied the false information released in â€œFarsâ€ agency and â€œTehran Timesâ€ Mass Medias of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Spokesman for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Zohra Aliyeva told APA that during the successful days of interesting exhibitions, movie screenings, literary and scientific meetings, unfortunately , the Iranian Mass Medias like â€œFarsâ€ agency and â€œTehran Timesâ€ attempted to distort the true facts known to the world from literature and cultural history while illustrating this significant cultural event. Though â€œTehran Timesâ€ wrote that Nizami Ganjavi lived and worked, died, as well as his mausoleum is situated in Azerbaijanâ€™s ancient Ganja city, it presented the great Azerbaijani as an Iranian poet. â€œFarsâ€ news agency also made the similar mistake.

Aliyeva said that owing to it, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, expresses its protests and disappointment over false reports in Iranian press bodies, on the basis of undeniable proofs of history, literary sources, world community, states that Nizami Ganjavi was not Iranian but Azerbaijani poet, was born and lived in Azerbaijanâ€™s ancient Ganja city and worked there: â€œName of Nizami Ganjavi, his immortal heritage has always believed to Azerbaijan during 9 centuries, Azerbaijani people gave the great poet to the world civilization. We believe that â€œFarsâ€ agency and â€œTehran Timesâ€ donâ€™t express the position of Iranian society and the irresponsible attitude of any news organization to the press laws canâ€™t shadow the future development of Iran-Azerbaijan cultural relationsâ€.