Ali Hasanov: "The radio stations that have recently been closed down in Azerbaijan are the heritage of cold war"

It can be say in one sentence that the radio stations, recently closed down in Azerbaijan, are currently the heritage of cold war, said Ali Hasanov, chief of the public policy department of the presidential administration, commenting on the announcement of Helsinki commission chairman, who said during the first meeting Ilham Aliyev and Barak Obama will have to spend time on radio stations instead of discussing bilateral relations.

"These radio stations are not transmitted in civil states and even if so they have no special status. Certainly, if these radio stations wish to broadcast in Azerbaijan, they can do it and we, in the framework of our legislation, will create conditions for them. But they will broadcast the way they do in other countries".

Hasanov noted that they are not going to create special conditions for their broadcast.

"I would like to repeat again that these radio stations have been preserved since the times of the cold war and broadcasted in the language of the countries against which they functioned. If these radio stations are so expedient, why aren't they transmitted in the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium and other countries. It means that these radio stations serve definite goals and are not for informing the population.

Even, despite this, if the countries, owning these radio stations, consider that these radio stations are important, let them continue working, but we will not create special conditions for them.

All TV channels and radio stations of the world broadcast on the basis of the international convention of transnational TV and radio broadcasting and we will have it the same way", concluded Hasanov.

/Day.Az/