A member of the Azerbaijani parliament on Tuesday called the government to take strict control over broadcasts of the BBC Central Asian and Caucasus Service to the country in order to prevent the “unequivocally anti-Azerbaijani propaganda.”
“BBC’s this kind of broadcasts [to Azerbaijan] must be stopped,” said Mubariz Qurbanli, an MP from the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP).
Qurbanli urged the Ministry of Communications and also re-broadcasters of the BBC Central Asian and Caucasus Service in the country to strictly monitor the allegedly biased programs.
One of the re-broadcasters, ANS ChM radio, has already set up deadline for the BBC World Service management to stop the purported pro-Armenian programs by June 1 or see its broadcasts stopped in Azerbaijan.
One of the demands put to the BBC management by Vahid Mustafayev, President of ANS group of companies, to which ANS ChM radio also includes, said an ethnic-Armenian producer of the BBC Central Asian and Caucasus Service, Mark Griogorian, must be fired from his position. Mustafayev blamed Margarian for the alleged anti—Azerbaijani propaganda of the BBC.
The Azerbaijani MPs also protested against BBC’s sending one of its reporters, Steve Eke, to Nagorno-Karabakh on May 12 without receiving an official permission from Baku.
The BBC World Service has denied the accusations.
“Looking back on the events around Karabakh over the last week, and even the years, the BBC is convinced that it has got the overall balance right,” said a letter sent to the Azerbaijani embassy in London by the BBC Eurasia Region Executive Editor, Olexiy Solohubenko, on May 14.
With regard to Steve Eke’s visit to Nagorno-Karabakh, the letter said the reporter was sent there via the only route that was available and that the route had been used also by journalists from various media organizations during the past decade.
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