[ 08 April 2015 17:10 ]
The author says in his report that the Armenians and Azerbaijanis fought for these lands in 1990s.
“Azerbaijan lost control over the territories and hundreds and thousands of ethnic Azerbaijanis fled their homes. Despite the 20-year ceasefire, the frontline remains heavily militarized. There are frequent firefights and casualties. Nagorno-Karabkah calls itself an independent republic. It has its own government, universities, even an international airport. Though in reality, Karabakh Armenians are isolated from the outside world.
Last year, “Nagorno-Karabkah republic” marked “20 years of its independence”. But this independence and republic itself has not been recognized by the international community, which considers this land part of Azerbaijan. This conflict remains unresolved, one such example is the airport, renovated a couple of years ago, its seats are empty. There no aircrafts flying in or out. The planes, risks being shot down by Azerbaijan, because there is still no official peace agreement. De-facto government says its exclusion from negotiations is holding back the process.”
Later on, the author presents an interview with Karen Mirzoyan who declared himself the foreign minister of the illegal regime. The report ends with a video showing trainings aimed at protecting children.
In his statement to APA, political analyst Gabil Huseynli condemned such reportages, saying that foreign journalists’ visits to Nagorno-Karabakh is one of the basic elements of the propaganda policy pursued by the separatist regime there.
According to him, the regime uses media as a tool.
“The invaders pretend to be seeking to tell the world through media about their myths that there is a national freedom movement out there and the occupied territories in fact belong to the Armenian population of that region. At the same time, journalist movement to that region helps with their legitimate recognition. Visits of journalists and art figures to the region without Azerbaijan’s permission and their propaganda in this respect are blatant violation of the law. Because the illegal regime has not been recognized by anyone and is accepted as part of Azerbaijan by the international community,” he said.
G. Huseynli said the only possible way to visit the occupied territories is with an official permission from Baku.
“Baku blacklists all journalists who make illegal an illegal visit to that region and bans them from ever entering Azerbaijan in future. This is a painful issue for Azerbaijan. The country is working hard in this direction, and perhaps it will yield a positive result,” said Huseynli.
According to the politician, those journalists’ visits to the occupied territories should be prohibited by their own countries or the companies they represent.
“If a country recognizes Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity but allows others to violate this integrity, it means that country has created conditions for violation of the law, kind of trampling the norms of international law. Not only journalists and the media corporations and televisions that they represent bear responsibility for this matter but also their countries,” said the politician.
