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Dialogue Eurasia Platform program's meeting held in Turkey

09 April 2006 [23:02] - TODAY.AZ
Antalya hosted on Saturday a "general assembly" amid the Dialogue Eurasia Platform’s four-day meeting over "media".
According to Turkey's Zaman newspaper, Anar Rizayev, an Azerbaijani poet and the Honorary President of the program, pointed the finger at the role of media.

The notion of freedom should not lead to impropriety, that is why, the media, the most powerful tool in the 21st century, ought to keep a fine balance between freedom and liability, said Rizayev.

Islam suffers from a lax attitude from the media towards equivalence of it with terrorism, Anar stressed.

The recent incidents in the West are a clear sign of drought of western influence on the East, said Harun Tokak, the Head of Journalists and Writers Foundation.

The program here is a ground to introduce eastern values to the West, said Tokak.

"The western optimism relies today on the eastern enlightenment."

The program sets a fine example of progress towards universal peace, said Tokak.

"This is a region hard enough to adjust to. We are under threats of conspiracy theories that aim for disintegration. There are evil forces working on the deterioration of hostility and abhorrence. This program, in this sense, is meant to be a response from the eastern intellectuals to such evil forces."

The Euro-Asian communities need to develop mutual relations with each other, said Elcin Efendiyev, the Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan.

It is the “truth” that Azerbaijan can only ally with in search of a resolution to the question of the Mountainous Karabagh, said Efendiyev.

The failure, however, came over the inability to speak the truth against the whole world, Efendiyev concluded.

Dialogue Eurasia Platform Honorary President and Azerbaijan Authors Union President Anar Rizayev told 20 percent of Azerbaijani territories were occupied by Armenia, claiming that the world media does not reflect the facts about the Karabakh issue.

"I do not want problems to be solved with bloodshed; however, Karabagh is a matter of honor," acknowledged Rizayev.

He told that they may one day cooperate with Armenia on condition that it does not demand soil from Turkey and give up from genocide allegations.

Prime Minister Erdogan noted that societies sharing the same geography pour into the same sea although they flow in different beds and meet in the same vastness.

Indicating that this fact is valid for the Eurasia region the most, Erdogan said: “Today, the Dialogue Eurasia Platform is making significant efforts in order to re-establish the bridges among Eurasian societies, which have similar adventures and develop future perspectives. I believe that the benefit of gathering around common interests and uniting our power will appear here. The Dialogue Eurasia Platform will be a ground where good wills turn into real steps."

Emphasizing the platform will make important contributions to our historical and cultural bonds, the Speaker of the Turkish Parliament, Bulent Arinc, told, "I wish to live in a world where civilizations do not clash but unite."

Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul underlined that Eurasia is the region, which will be influenced by the international developments and influence the other regions of the world in the next period.

Indicating that the region countries should evaluate the developments in the Eurasian geography in a healthy way, Gul asked to show the necessary support in order for Eurasia to become a region of cooperation and welfare more than a region of competition.

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