Bank Of Baku

US Ambassador: We are negotiating with Azerbaijani government to remove defamation article from Criminal Code

US Ambassador: We are negotiating with Azerbaijani government to remove defamation article from Criminal Code
# 19 July 2007 16:16 (UTC +04:00)
“The United States believes that freedom of expression is one of the fundamental human rights, freedom of media is decisive for development of democracy. At the same time, all democracies experience quite natural tense relations between the press and political-economic forces. Press has major responsibility before the society. Therefore, journalists should do their work with high professionalism keeping with ethic standards. Regrettably, it does not always happen,” the ambassador underlined.
Ms.Derse said that in case of irresponsible journalism even it is blameful limiting of freedom of expression, which is more important, cannot be justified.
“In fact, quite natural disputable momentums can be eliminated through open dialogue between the media, government and society. The Press Council is an important tool in both ensuring of dialogue and monitoring of ethics and professionalism of journalists. The United States is ready to assist in organizing training to improve journalists’ professionalism, support the new project that will enable the Press Council to monitor the press and be informed of violation of ethic and professionalism rules,” she stressed. /APA/


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