‘Wrong’ Question to Lavrov Makes Journalist Fired
The question to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov caused the chief of the Moscow Bureau of the Azerbaijani Leader TV channel Anar Hasanov to lose his job.
On January 18 at a press conference, he asked Lavrov how the Russian Federation would behave in case if Azerbaijan decided to liberate its territory by military means and whether Russia would close its eyes on it or interfere in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan.
In response, Lavrov noted that the Karabakh conflict is not an internal affair of Azerbaijan. He further noted the need to liberate the occupied territories only peacefully. Lavrov also called for the simultaneous solution of the question of the liberation of the occupied territories and determination of the NK status.
In Azerbaijan, the incident was seen as Lavrov’s supporting the positions of Armenia and infringing Azerbaijan’s rights.
Despite the angry statements by MPs, including members of the ruling party, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reacted too "softly", without giving an assessment to Lavrov’s words that Karabakh is not an internal affair of Azerbaijan.
However, in the Azerbaijani press and social networks Lavrov's statement and the spinelessness of official Baku caused a storm.
At the same time, Lavrov's words caused a similar storm of enthusiasm in Armenia.
After that, the authorities began to look for the ‘guilty’ and decided that the journalist Anar Hasanov is the best candidate for this. So, after 13 years of work on Leader TV, the journalist was fired.
The head of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov has not found anything better than to say that the journalist ‘did not ask a good question’ and he had to ask something else. -06D--
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