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    NO RECONCILIATION IN INFORMATION SPACE POSSIBLE WITHOUT LIBERATION OF LANDS

    news.az
    May 20 2010
    Azerbaijan

    News.Az interviews Elchin Shikhli, chairman of the Azerbaijan's
    Journalists Union.

    Today the negotiation process on the Karabakh settlement has entered
    the final stage. Don't you think that it is time for the mass media
    of Azerbaijan and Armenia to stop hostilities, mutual insults and
    propaganda of war in the information space and start preparing their
    people for peace?

    I have tried not to insult in my statements. It is just necessary
    to behave in line with some cultural frameworks. As for propaganda,
    I think we cannot stop in this situation. I can only stop in the case
    when the Karabakh conflict is settled, that is when our lands are
    freed, people return to their homes and after it I will be calm down.

    But I am always ready to speak and discuss problems and I think
    people should really not insult each other. However, in the reality,
    I do not believe that the parties will abstain from such events at
    the current stage.

    Considering the fact that this conflict will be settled one day and
    our people will have to co-exist anyway. Would be expedient in this
    connection to pose a moratorium for the propaganda of war?

    I think we have a full right to make such statements unless this
    problem is not settled. But when it is settled within the framework
    of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, we will be able to impose
    moratorium and fraternize with each other. Then it will be normal.

    Is it true that we, Azerbaijanis and Armenians, hamper the peaceful
    co-existence of growing generations by cultivating hatred in them?

    Would it not be more expedient to abstain from sharp statements at
    the current stage?

    The matter is that in this situation it is Armenians who should stop.

    I know by examples that they merely bring up their children in the
    spirit that when they asked "who is your enemy?", the answer will
    immediately be "Turks". It means that I have nothing to do with
    it. I do not bring up my children in hatred to anyone, including to
    Armenians. I have just taught my children to be strong. But it does
    not mean that they must hate everything.

    Can a moratorium be imposed on insulting publications or propaganda of
    appeals for war? Is it possible that all mass medias will observe it?

    I agree with you. This is really unreal, since there is a social order
    and it has not become so mature yet to say: "alright, let's forget
    that Armenians have occupied 20% of our lands, that there is not a
    single Azerbaijani in Armenia, that over 600,000 of our citizens are
    displaced persons". Unless there are these realities, it is unreal
    to speak of reconciliation as there is a social order. For example,
    I was lucky to live in Baku. My house is not occupied, I do not live
    in tents and so on. But let's think of those people who lost everything
    and those children who were born and brought up tents. They will merely
    not understand me if I speak of the propagandist reconciliation. But
    when I am able to help them return to their native lands, there
    will be a different social order to me. Then they will say: "Well,
    everything can happen in this life, let's forgive them".

    But today about a million of my countrymen (that is refugees from
    Armenia and displaced persons from occupied Azerbaijani lands) who
    directly suffered from the conflict live in Baku. They have relatives
    who were not affected by the war directly. Therefore, I think imposing
    of a moratorium in these conditions is incorrect.
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