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Public Union â€œAzerbaijani Community of Azerbaijan Republicâ€™s Nagorno Karabakh regionâ€ makes statement on Euronews report

16 December 2009 09:09 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Public Union â€œAzerbaijani Community of Azerbaijan Republicâ€™s Nagorno Karabakh regionâ€ made a statement on the report broadcasted on Euronews TV channel, the union told APA. The statement expresses protest against the biased report aiming to form wrong public opinion on Nagorno Karabakh.
â€œWe express our protest against the biased report broadcasted on Euronews aiming to form wrong public opinion on Nagorno Karabakh. Euronews correspondents, who were sent to Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan Republic, prepared a report â€œWinds of change in Nagorno Karabakhâ€ contradicting the traditions of the channel. It is noted several times in the report that â€œNagorno Karabakh Republicâ€ is an independent state. This report has anti-Azerbaijan character. The church in Nagorno Karabakh is shown in the report, it is noted that the region is a part of Armenia both from religious and moral aspect. It causes regret that nothing is said about 17 mosques in Shusha. The worst of it is that such biased report aiming to confuse Europeâ€™s public opinion was repeatedly broadcasted on the channel.â€

Nagorno Karabakh is native and everlasting land of Azerbaijan, said the statement. â€œ20 percent of Azerbaijani lands were occupied as a result of Armenian aggression, Azerbaijani historical and cultural monuments were destroyed becoming victim of Armenian vandalism, more than one million people were expelled from their homeland and turned into refugees and internally displaced persons. UN, Council of Europe, OSCE, Organization of the Islamic Conference and other influential international organizations declared Armenia, which occupied Azerbaijani lands, as an invader country and condemned ethnic cleansing policy it pursued. Unfortunately director of the Belgiumâ€™s Leuven Catholic University Academic Council, Professor Bernard Coulie called Nagorno Karabakh â€œattractive and unique region of Armenian cultureâ€ and â€œheart of Armeniaâ€. He introduced Nagorno Karabakh as an â€œindependent countryâ€ and leader of separatists as a â€œpresidentâ€ of that so-called â€œcountryâ€. Public Union of the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan is strongly protesting such claims, which are based on the clear and gross distortion of the historic-political factsâ€.

The sabotage-characterized report of the TV channel, which has large audience, reduces hopes for fair solution to Nagorno Karabakh conflict, said the statement. â€œEuronews non-objective and preconceived report seriously damages the settlement process conducted by the OSCE mediation and prevented peace, stability and mutual trust in the region. The TV channel is unaware of that Nagorno Karabakh is a historic land of Azerbaijan, it was always populated by Azerbaijanis and Armenians settled there in 19th century and its is unacceptable that it doesnâ€™t know this reality. 25.37 percent of Euronews shares are owned by French National Broadcasting Corporation and 16.94 percent â€“ by Russian National Broadcasting Company and it has negative impact on the positions of France and Russia, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, on Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We hope that Euronews will lift this incorrectness and inform its large audience about the position of Azerbaijani community and take measures to objectively cover historic realitiesâ€.