Azerbaijan's ruling party sends protest letter to Russia's "Nezavisimaya Qazeta" on publication of pro-Armenian article

The New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) sent a letter of protest to the Russian “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” newspaper on the article by a certain Sergey Zvyagin dedicated to the Khojaly genocide (“Khojaly: the Truth and Falsification”), and published in the March 5 issue of the newspaper.

The author, without any serious investigation and analysis, tries to blame Azerbaijan in the Khojaly events and openly backs the position of Armenians, the letter says. Zvyagin attempts to characterize the Sumgait events (1988) and the intrusion of the imperial troops to Baku (1990) as the massacre against the Armenians. The “journalist” goes beyond, accusing Azerbaijan in misrepresentation of these events and noisy propaganda campaign it allegedly carries out together with Turkey.

The New Azerbaijan Party urges on “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” to be unbiased in writing such complicated materials on ethnic conflicts and not distort the facts. Such position misleads the readers, harms reputation of the newspaper and contradicts the fundamental principles of journalism, the letter underlines.


/AzerTac/