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Unlike Azerbaijan, Armenia uses only facts in information wars -
Defense Ministry official
TERT.AM
15:31 - 10.02.13
Tert.am had an interview with the head of the Armenian Defense
Ministry's public relations department, Karabakh freedom fighter,
General-Mayor Vardan Avetisyan about the Armenian-Azerbaijani
information wars, Armenian Armed Forces and role of the local mass
media.
- What is our condition regarding information wars?
- In the information war field we are trying to work only with facts.
The made-up statements of Azerbaijan and Azeris about their ethic
origin, their pompous statements about territories of Nagorno-Karabakh
are spread everywhere but they are nothing before the historic truth.
They are just afraid to look into the eyes of reality as this reality
is not beneficial to them.
We are periodically witnessing horrible scenes like for instance the
destruction of the Armenian cemetery in Jougha, Nakhijevan. They are
trying to turn these territories into Turkic ones and eliminate the
evidences that Armenians were ethnic people of these territories.
Unlike their false scholars, who recently published articles about
Karabakh's Tigranakert mocking us, and considering Tigranakert an
Azerbaijani town, Armenia is coming up with facts only.
Unlike them we have rich material culture and cultural samples,
historic-cultural monuments, historiography, which prove the path our
people have passed.
I think after Safarov developments the entire world learnt that
unhidden Armeniaphobia is the disease of the whole people of
Azerbaijan.
- What issues does Armenia face in the information war field?
-Information war is not only the issue of the Armed Forces. We are
living in the world of network wars. Current global challenges suppose
that each conflict engages the whole potential of the public and their
skills. Today you are not able to win the enemy by arrow or partisan
squads. The information wars and the propaganda stemming from it may
change the pace of developments in a second.
Each citizen may become the participant, target of the information
war, thus first of all it is very important for our public to be armed
with corresponding knowledge, recognize the path the people have
passed, love his/her country, evaluate everything that our friends
defended for us at the price of their lives. Only in this way it is
possible to confront the attempts of dividing our nation through
propaganda.
Today wide-scale works are being implemented, audio, video materials
are being prepared to present them to the international community for
them to know the truth.
Scholars, political analysts, historians are mainly dealing with it
but the Defense Ministry, on behalf of minister Seyran Ohanyan, is
always supportive of such initiatives.
- In your opinion, what impact do local mass media have on forming
public's opinion about army?
- Mass media is part of the information war. Mass media is the best
means of propaganda for the local, internal, external audience. In
this case it is very important for us to have healthy, sober, caring
reporters who will realize that each their article relating to army
may be dangerous for the security of the whole public and may be used
by the enemy against us, like it is often being done.
- Which are the circumstances that impede the reinforcement of army?
- I think our army, being formed in the conditions of war, has passed
a long path. Today our Armed Forces are quite reinforced but the
army-building process continues as army always needs being refreshed
and strengthened. All the flaws existing today will be eliminated as
we are so young both as state and as an army.
-Did you think during the war years that the country will have such an army?
- Regular army was the dream of all of us, it was also the must of the
time. Our newly independent state was forced to be engaged in thewar
and the formation of army was a necessity.
Today our army is the pride of the whole nation, the guarantee of our
country's security.
Defense Ministry official
TERT.AM
15:31 - 10.02.13
Tert.am had an interview with the head of the Armenian Defense
Ministry's public relations department, Karabakh freedom fighter,
General-Mayor Vardan Avetisyan about the Armenian-Azerbaijani
information wars, Armenian Armed Forces and role of the local mass
media.
- What is our condition regarding information wars?
- In the information war field we are trying to work only with facts.
The made-up statements of Azerbaijan and Azeris about their ethic
origin, their pompous statements about territories of Nagorno-Karabakh
are spread everywhere but they are nothing before the historic truth.
They are just afraid to look into the eyes of reality as this reality
is not beneficial to them.
We are periodically witnessing horrible scenes like for instance the
destruction of the Armenian cemetery in Jougha, Nakhijevan. They are
trying to turn these territories into Turkic ones and eliminate the
evidences that Armenians were ethnic people of these territories.
Unlike their false scholars, who recently published articles about
Karabakh's Tigranakert mocking us, and considering Tigranakert an
Azerbaijani town, Armenia is coming up with facts only.
Unlike them we have rich material culture and cultural samples,
historic-cultural monuments, historiography, which prove the path our
people have passed.
I think after Safarov developments the entire world learnt that
unhidden Armeniaphobia is the disease of the whole people of
Azerbaijan.
- What issues does Armenia face in the information war field?
-Information war is not only the issue of the Armed Forces. We are
living in the world of network wars. Current global challenges suppose
that each conflict engages the whole potential of the public and their
skills. Today you are not able to win the enemy by arrow or partisan
squads. The information wars and the propaganda stemming from it may
change the pace of developments in a second.
Each citizen may become the participant, target of the information
war, thus first of all it is very important for our public to be armed
with corresponding knowledge, recognize the path the people have
passed, love his/her country, evaluate everything that our friends
defended for us at the price of their lives. Only in this way it is
possible to confront the attempts of dividing our nation through
propaganda.
Today wide-scale works are being implemented, audio, video materials
are being prepared to present them to the international community for
them to know the truth.
Scholars, political analysts, historians are mainly dealing with it
but the Defense Ministry, on behalf of minister Seyran Ohanyan, is
always supportive of such initiatives.
- In your opinion, what impact do local mass media have on forming
public's opinion about army?
- Mass media is part of the information war. Mass media is the best
means of propaganda for the local, internal, external audience. In
this case it is very important for us to have healthy, sober, caring
reporters who will realize that each their article relating to army
may be dangerous for the security of the whole public and may be used
by the enemy against us, like it is often being done.
- Which are the circumstances that impede the reinforcement of army?
- I think our army, being formed in the conditions of war, has passed
a long path. Today our Armed Forces are quite reinforced but the
army-building process continues as army always needs being refreshed
and strengthened. All the flaws existing today will be eliminated as
we are so young both as state and as an army.
-Did you think during the war years that the country will have such an army?
- Regular army was the dream of all of us, it was also the must of the
time. Our newly independent state was forced to be engaged in thewar
and the formation of army was a necessity.
Today our army is the pride of the whole nation, the guarantee of our
country's security.