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Ali Hasanov: Freedom of media and political pluralism have become priorities of the policy pursued by Azerbaijan

02 May 2013 08:55 (UTC +04:00)

Chief of socio-political department of the Presidential Administration Ali Hasanov said this addressing the event on “Azerbaijan’s media space: current situation and perspective tasks”, APA reports.

Hasanov said that a democratic state is the one, where people form government on their will, NGOs, political parties and media outlets participate in this process as mediators.

“There is a media institution estimating all spheres of public life, informing people about the state’s policy and demonstrating the people’s attitude towards this policy. The activity of these institutions totally embraces civil society building. Azerbaijan started civil society building in 1992. It was included in the Azerbaijani Constitution in 1995 and we have been developing up to now,” he said.

Noting that censure was abolished in Azerbaijan under the decree of Heydar Aliyev on August 6, 1998, official of the Presidential Administration said it went down in the history of the national press.

“This stands in the center of future development of the Azerbaijani media. The decree covers freedom of media, which has already proved itself in the democratic countries, principle of political pluralism and democratic regulation of journalistic activity. Since then, freedom of media and political pluralism have become priorities of the policy pursued by Azerbaijan. It would be unjust to think that since 1998 all media problems have been solved, we have created fully transparent media without problems,” he said.