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    ANS Pulls BBC Off Air

    Baku Today, Azerbaijan
    June 2 2004

    Baku Today 03/06/2004 01:17

    Azerbaijan's private ANS Media and Broadcasting Company pulled the
    Russian-language radio programs of the BBC Central Asia and Caucasus
    Service off the air on Tuesday in response to what ANS called the
    BBC management's failure to stop the service's biased reports on
    Azerbaijan.

    ANS, which was one of the re-broadcasters of the programs in
    Azerbaijan, had set up deadline to the BBC World Service in Mid-May to
    stop the purported unbalanced reports by June 1 or see its broadcasts
    stopped.

    ANS demanded the BBC World Service fire an ethnic-Armenian producer
    of its Central Asia and Caucasus Service, Mark Griogorian, whom ANS
    blamed for anti--Azerbaijani propaganda.

    While expressing regret for ANS's decision to pull the Russian
    programs off the air, a statement by the BBC said the corporation
    is committed to the objective coverage of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
    conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

    "We are concerned that listeners in Azerbaijan would be deprived of our
    reliable and unbiased news and information especially in a time when
    there is a greater need for international news," said the statement,
    which was posted on the Russian web site of the BBC Central Asia and
    Caucasus Service.

    The statement said that BBC would keep covering events in the region
    in a balanced, fair and accurate way as it is doing all over the world.

    The Russian programs of the BBC Central Asia and Caucasus Service in
    Azerbaijan are being re-broadcast by the State Television and Radio
    Company and also by the BBC's own FM frequency 103.3 in Baku.
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