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    Azeri ANS TV suspends BBC broadcasts, but ready to continue cooperation

    ANS TV, Baku
    1 Jun 04

    [Presenter in studio] The news bulletins of the BBC Russian service
    will no longer be rebroadcast by ANS CM. Both companies have kept
    their word.

    [Correspondent over video of ANS office] As of today, the BBC
    Russian broadcasts through ANS CM radio have been suspended on
    Azerbaijani territory. The ANS independent broadcasting and media
    company has taken this step in connection with the position of the
    BBC's morning programmes on Azerbaijan. We should remind you that
    the ANS CM radio station had repeatedly sent letters of warning to
    the BBC that the morning programmes of this service of the BBC and
    the programmes by producer Mark Grigoryan are distorting the truth
    about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. It was said that if Mark
    Grigoryan is not taken off the air by 31 May, the transmission of
    the Russian service will be suspended on 1 June. So it was suspended.

    The BBC also regrets this decision. But at the same time, Hamid
    Ismayilov, head of the BBC's South Caucasus and Central Asia Service,
    stressed that ANS is a democratic and independent channel.

    Vahid Mustafayev, head of the ANS group of companies, made the
    following comment on the decision: ANS had played a great role
    in setting up the BBC's Azerbaijani service. For this reason, we
    will continue our cooperation. We suspended the transmission of the
    Russian-language programmes because these programmes are run by an
    Armenian producer which seriously worried Azerbaijani listeners.

    I should note that the BBC leaders have accepted this step with
    understanding, end of quote.

    Ayaz Mirzayev, ANS.
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