“Azerbaijan’s foreign policy is showing an interesting tendency. The Azerbaijani authorities must have decided to resort to various ways of lodging complaints about foreign TV companies, trying to impose their only style of work on them,” the Nagorno-Karabakh political analyst Artak Nersisyan said.

“Baku does not seem to understand that mass media in civilized countries need interesting news, not oil – interesting news from, as Peter Barabas, Euronews Editor-in-Chief, said in his interview with Day.az, hard-to-reach sources. The cause for the hard-to-get trustworthy information on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and especially on the life of ordinary people is the flow of false information reported by Azerbaijan, which is thereby trying to deprive the international community of reliable information on Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani authorities are afraid that foreign mass media will expose their hypocritical policy and, at the same time, satisfy the ordinary Azerbaijani citizens’ desire to be accurately informed the situation in the NKR,” Nersisyan said.

Seeing that their complains do not produce any results, official Baku threatened the TV channels with invalidating their accreditation and are now carrying out their threats.

“Particularly, Azerbaijan has implemented this policy toward the NTV Channel, which is operating in Turkey, Azerbaijan’s ‘big brother’. If this policy continues, Azerbaijan’s population will soon have to watch only local TV channels, with their programs full of lie about centuries-old history of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh being a historical part of Azerbaijan, and so on. Ordinary citizens are sick and tired of hearing all this. The Azerbaijani authorities, however, do not at all seem to be concerned over that, as they have been pursuing what is known as ostrich policy for a long time,” Nesisyan said.

T.P.