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Sector chief of Azerbaijanâ€™s Presidential Administration: I would advise all business captains to make a pause in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

10 December 2009 10:06 (UTC +04:00)

-What is the main aim of the Azerbaijani delegationâ€™s participation in this forum? How do you assess the importance of this event?

-I appreciate deeply this forum and that is why Azerbaijan participates in the forum. Despite the remarks that there is no Russian-language space, such a space exists. We all are living in a unique information space, and when, roughly speaking, business captains â€“ heads of media outlets make speeches, much depends on them, mainly how the outline of the information space will be tomorrow, in the near future and later on.

As you know, I said while delivering speech that Russia is the only country that takes very active part on the presidential level in the settlement of Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. Russian President meets both with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. Therefore, I would advise all business captains to make a pause in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, create conditions for the nations to reach agreement, pay attention to their intonation. My view was approved, behind the scenes discussions heads of Russian media outlets said it was a right approach â€“ conditions should be created for the nations to reach agreement. The State Duma, ten days later the Public Chamber organized roundtables for Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian intellectuals and media. Thatâ€™s why we should attend this forum, demonstrate will and meet. We are received and understood here. We are understood here, they understand that it high time to put an end to this conflict. This is not the 80s, 90s. Some media outlets should calm down.
Iâ€™ve compiled facts here and on the basis of these facts, I propose to declare some persons working in media persona non-grata. I am often asked what I mean when I say this - Must they be dismissed from a job? I answer, no. Simply, heads of Mass Media organizations should tell them there is no place for them in the office, because they incite international hostility. There is a freedom of speech in the country, go and launch a site in Internet and write, but there is no place for you in my trusted agency or in other mass media. I think we should put it into practice.

- We all witnessed completely nonobjective anti-Azerbaijan hysterics by Russiaâ€™s â€œRegnumâ€ agency. What should be done to get rid of such cases?

- You have given a name of the agency we have already had in our list. This agency is busy with such works. We will take measures in this respect. You are quite right â€“ â€œRegnumâ€ agency is also among such media organizations. Moreover, we can give a name of â€œRENâ€ TV Channel, which has recently prepared and telecast unprofessional program aggravating international hostility. Such facts can be observed in other Mass media organizations and we will talk to them.

- How do you evaluate Russian President Dmitry Medevedevâ€™s speech at the forum?

- Methinks, the Russian Presidentâ€™s speech was enough concrete. He made speech not like the president, but like a colleague of journalists and I liked it so much. Note that Dmitry Medevedev even created his own blog and posted a vivid journal in this blog, where the people may not only write, but also chat with each other. As I know, no one else has taken such step except him. I found his speech substantial and positive.