Armenian Defence Ministry: We shall continue to be accountable to the society for all achievements and oversights
After the Azerbaijani president’s decree, dated 24 September 2014, which concerns security regulations along the Contact Line between Karabakh and Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Azerbaijan has established a new unprecedented benchmark for restricting and distorting facts in its information policy, Armenia’s Ministry of Defense said in a press release. “Besides distorting the facts about Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and the situation along the Line of Contact, both on domestic and international levels, and disseminating misinformation, the Defence Ministry of that country [Azerbaijan] has fully suspended publication of any negative reports about its armed forces, especially concerning the failures along the Line of Contact that resulted in numerous unjustified human losses. This behaviour is fully compliant with the country’s information policy on the national level, where “freedom of speech”, “free media”, “human rights”, “pluralism” and all other characteristics of free information society are eradicated and free expression is viewed as treason and generations are brought up based on the image of heroes, developing a foe image of Armenians. The Defence Ministry of the Republic of Armenia will continue its open, transparent and impartial information policy and be accountable to the society for all achievements and, more importantly, for oversights, because it fully realizes the responsibility for overcoming them and ensuring the protection of the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian people. This difference in approaches adopted in the information domain shows in the best way the existing and deepening moral and value differences between the conflicting sides, reads the statement.
