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Vugar Safarli: “Freedom House always releases negative reports about Azerbaijan”

Vugar Safarli: “Freedom House always releases negative reports about Azerbaijan”
# 03 May 2011 12:27 (UTC +04:00)
Baku. Rashad Suleymanov - APA. “Freedom House always releases negative reports about Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s recent ranking of press freedom is preconceived”, said Vugar Safarli, executive director of Azerbaijani State Support for Media Development Fund under the Azerbaijani President, APA reports.

He said that the press is developing in Azerbaijan today, the government supports the mass media: “AZN 1 mln was allocated from budget for development of mass media in 2009, AZN 2 mln plus 1 mln in 2010. AZN 2 mln 400 thousand was planned to be granted in 2011”.

Chairman of Press Council Aflatun Amashov told journalists that placing Azerbaijan in the last position in press freedom rating list is suspicious. According to chairman of the council, measures taken in Azerbaijan for the development of the press or conditions created for the work of journalists are not worse than in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Turkey, where 70 journalists are under arrest.
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