Exposing ArmeniaNow, biased Western-backed political anti-Armenian media outlets.

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Azerbaijan threatens to annihilate aircrafts flying to Stepanakert’s airport

March 16, 2011 | 17:39
Azerbaijan threatens to annihilate aircrafts flying to Nagorno-Karabakh’s airport, if Karabakh authorities reopen the airport, Director of the Civil Aviation Administration Arif Mammadov stated on March 16.

“Our airspace is closed over Karabakh. According to law on aviation, it is considered to annihilate those aircrafts which fly even to there,” Mammadov said.

Speaking of the information on construction of a new airport in Stepanakert, Mammadov said preventive measures had already been started in this regard. He said that the CAA sent a letter to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), APA agency reports.

“ICAO head addressed a letter to Azerbaijani side and recommended to join some conventions, make efforts to prevent occurrence of unpleasant incidents in the region. We wrote to ICAO that this airspace is closed and belongs to Azerbaijani Military Air Forces. And ICAO sent my letter to the Armenian side,” Mammadov said.

Western media quickly make anti-Armenian articles when some journalists are refused to enter Armenia for grounded reasons (something which also happens in every other Western country in the world). Let's see how many articles they will write about Azerbaijan threatening to destroy CIVILIAN aircrafts (or Azerbaijan destroying Armenian heritage, or Azerbaijan putting in jail dozens of journalists, or Azerbaijan putting in jail hundreds of demonstrators).

We all know the answer.

[Mos]

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It's funny because Azerbaijani politicians complain so much about West being biased towards Armenia:

BAKU (RFE/RL)–Reacting to the signing of a new Russian-Armenian defense agreement, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s chief foreign policy aide has claimed that both Russia and the West support Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
“Giving such big support to an occupying country contradicts international legal norms and principles,” Novruz Mammadov told the APA news agency in an interview late on Thursday. “It is not very difficult to understand the essence of such overt support for such a state.”
Mammadov said that by prolonging and upgrading its military presence in Armenia with that agreement Russia called into question its stated neutrality toward the Karabakh dispute. “With such statements and such support, it’s difficult to be an objective mediator,” he said.
Armenian officials say that the new defense pact, which also commits the Russians to supplying its regional ally with modern weaponry, will discourage Azerbaijan from attempting to resolve the dispute by force. Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian told RFE/RL’s Armenian service this week that Russian troops could openly support Armenia in case of renewed fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
“I don’t think that the signing of such an agreement between Russia and Armenia and a greater modernization of the local [Russian military] base will pose a threat only to Azerbaijan,” Mammadov said, commenting on these statements. “If the Armenian side thinks that Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to it, then it’s a big mistake.”
“If Armenia wants to draw Russia into a war in Nagorno-Karabakh, then it’s another big mistake,” he added.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry rejected Ohanian’s remarks as “laughable” by “This agreement is between two states, it is up to them. But this protocol cannot hinder or stop the Azerbaijani Army,” ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroglu told ANS television on Thursday.
According to RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani service, Sabiroglu also said Azerbaijan has no choice but to upgrade its armed forces by acquiring new weaponry.
Mammadov, who heads the foreign relations department at Aliyev’s administration, also hit out at the United States and other Western powers. “One of the results of my calculations and observations is that the West and Europe … have channeled all their efforts into rendering support and assistance to the occupier Armenia in a regular, systemic manner,” he said.
The Azerbaijani official claimed in that context that the West organized an upcoming NATO disaster relief exercise in Armenia in order to force Turkey to open the Turkish-Armenian border. “They thus want to once again pit Turkey against Azerbaijan,” he said.

Biased, pro-Armenian Amnesty International 2010 Report Plays Dumb on Yazidis, and their Persecution

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/biased-pro-armenian-amnesty-international-2010-report-plays-dumb-on-yazidis-and-their-persecution.html

The upshot is that for Azerbaijan, the US has lost its neutrality. This development now seriously jeopardizes progress on the conflict but also the strategic alliance between the two countries, which has sought to enhance European energy security, strengthen the independence of the post-Soviet states and promote integration of Azerbaijan into the Euro-Atlantic community. This was further underlined when on April 19 Baku announced the suspension of military exercises planned with the US for May. Coming only a few days after the launch of Obama’s nuclear summit in Washington to which Azerbaijan was not invited, it was taken as yet another confirmation of Washington’s pro-Armenian bias. Azerbaijan has been very disappointed by the US’s failure to appoint a new ambassador to the country. The post has now been open for some eight months.

Just some of sources....

[Tigranakert]

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Azerbaijanis are playing the game smart. Our media isn't as successful as theirs. It's like them destroying our cultural heritage in Julfa and simultaneously saying it is Armenians who destruct their national heritage. Or killing Armenian soldiers and a moment later stating that it is Armenians killing poor Azerbaijani children. An unbiased report is biased to them, as we saw with Euronews (it was totally not pro-Armenian), but they managed to make a new documentary which was filled with lies and was extremely pro-Azerbaijani.

[ninetoyadome]

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Western media quickly make anti-Armenian articles when some journalists are refused to enter Armenia for grounded reasons (something which also happens in every other Western country in the world). Let's see how many articles they will write about Azerbaijan threatening to destroy CIVILIAN aircrafts (or Azerbaijan destroying Armenian heritage, or Azerbaijan putting in jail dozens of journalists, or Azerbaijan putting in jail hundreds of demonstrators).

We all know the answer.

The OSCE responded
Head of the OSCE condemned the threat of Azerbaijan on the destruction of the landing of aircraft at the airport in Stepanakert
On an official visit to Armenia the OSCE Chairman Audronius Ažubalis jointly with the Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian press skonferentsii on Friday condemned the threat of Azerbaijan on the destruction of the landing of aircraft at the airport in Stepanakert.

According to him, the statement of a military nature with respect to civil aviation are groundless, since all the issues in this sphere are solved on the basis of international documents.

Earlier the director of Azerbaijan State Civil Aviation Administration Arif Mammadov said Azerbaijan would destroy the aircraft to land at the airport in Stepanakert.

The Azeri side has informed the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Azerbaijani airspace over Karabakh closed. "The law" On Air ", will the physical destruction of aircraft, land on this territory," - said Mamedov.

Stepanakert airport will be operational May 9.

/ Times.am /

http://voskanapat.info/blog/glava_obse_osudil_ugrozy_azerbajdzhana_ob_unichtozhenii_prizemljajushhikhsja_v_aehroportu_stepanakerta_samoletov/2011-03-18-4497

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The OSCE mentioned that Armenia should start withdrawing their snipers, as a "goodwill" gesture to Azerbaijan. There has been no strong condemnation of the ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan.

[Mos]

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The OSCE mentioned that Armenia should start withdrawing their snipers, as a "goodwill" gesture to Azerbaijan. There has been no strong condemnation of the ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan.

only to Armenia? I thought they said unilateral withdrawl?

After an incident in which an Armenian sniper allegedly shot an Azerbaijani child across the line of contact between the two sides in the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, the OSCE has called on both sides to remove their snipers from the line of contact.

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Armenia, Karabakh Rule Out Unilateral Sniper Withdrawal

Amenia -- Nagorno-Karabakh President Bako Sahakian (L) is pictured after holding talks in Yerevan with Lithuanian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Audronius Azubalis, 18Mar2011.
18.03.2011
Sargis Harutyunyan
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh rejected on Friday a top OSCE representative’s proposal to unilaterally withdrawal snipers from their volatile “line of contact” with Azerbaijan.

The U.S., Russian and French mediators co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group have repeatedly called for sniper withdrawal by both conflicting parties, saying that would help prevent deadly skirmishes in the conflict zone. The troika reaffirmed the call after ending another round of regional shuttle diplomacy late on Thursday.

The Armenian government and Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership have backed the idea, while official Baku has spoken out against it.

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis, whose country currently holds the OSCE’s rotating presidency, discussed the matter with Armenian and Karabakh leaders during a Friday visit to Yerevan. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian, Azubalis suggested that the Armenian side unilaterally pull back its snipers from the frontline as a gesture of goodwill.

Nalbandian sounded cool towards the proposal. He stressed that both Armenia and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) continue to support a mutual sniper withdrawal.

“Armenia will not make unilateral concessions, and the sniper withdrawal must be mutual and simultaneous,” Eduard Sharmazanov, the spokesman for the ruling Republican Party, said later in the day.

The idea was also rejected by Bako Sahakian, the NKR president who held separate talks with Azubalis in Yerevan. “Such proposals can be put into practice only when the parties display a constructive approach,” he told journalists. “We have grounds to state that during all these years Azerbaijan has repeatedly breached agreements and in this situation we can’t afford to unilaterally accept Mr. Azubalis’s proposals.”

Sahakian pointed to the death of yet another Karabakh Armenian soldier on Thursday evening. The 18-year-old conscript, Aharon Hayrapetian, was shot dead at a frontline section east of the disputed territory.

Hayrapetian is the second Armenian soldier reportedly killed by Azerbaijani forces since the March 5 meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents that was hosted by their Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. In a joint statement with Medvedev, the presidents agreed to strengthen the ceasefire regime and investigate truce violations jointly with the OSCE.

Is this the "constructive" approach OSCE has been preaching? What a bunch of stupid idiots.

"Well, yeah we know Azerbaijan is destroying Armenian heritage, well... yeah we know they are spreading anti-Armenism in their country, well...yeah we know they are violating the ceasefire every time... but hey, after all of this, we think it is best if YOU withdraw your snipers.. you see, that would be a goodwill gesture after all the things you have done, to those poor Azeris...we believe the Azeris would appreciate this very much"

only to Armenia? I thought they said unilateral withdrawl?

Unilateral means one (the Armenian) side.

[Mos]

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Well, it's either both the sides withdraw, or no one withdraws.

But the Azeri propaganda machine is just ridiculous - you see what they turned an incident of a child getting shot into? "oh those evil Armenians massacring children"

[ninetoyadome]

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Armenia, Karabakh Rule Out Unilateral Sniper Withdrawal

Amenia -- Nagorno-Karabakh President Bako Sahakian (L) is pictured after holding talks in Yerevan with Lithuanian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Audronius Azubalis, 18Mar2011.
18.03.2011
Sargis Harutyunyan
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh rejected on Friday a top OSCE representative’s proposal to unilaterally withdrawal snipers from their volatile “line of contact” with Azerbaijan.

The U.S., Russian and French mediators co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group have repeatedly called for sniper withdrawal by both conflicting parties, saying that would help prevent deadly skirmishes in the conflict zone. The troika reaffirmed the call after ending another round of regional shuttle diplomacy late on Thursday.

The Armenian government and Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership have backed the idea, while official Baku has spoken out against it.

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis, whose country currently holds the OSCE’s rotating presidency, discussed the matter with Armenian and Karabakh leaders during a Friday visit to Yerevan. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian, Azubalis suggested that the Armenian side unilaterally pull back its snipers from the frontline as a gesture of goodwill.

Nalbandian sounded cool towards the proposal. He stressed that both Armenia and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) continue to support a mutual sniper withdrawal.

“Armenia will not make unilateral concessions, and the sniper withdrawal must be mutual and simultaneous,” Eduard Sharmazanov, the spokesman for the ruling Republican Party, said later in the day.

The idea was also rejected by Bako Sahakian, the NKR president who held separate talks with Azubalis in Yerevan. “Such proposals can be put into practice only when the parties display a constructive approach,” he told journalists. “We have grounds to state that during all these years Azerbaijan has repeatedly breached agreements and in this situation we can’t afford to unilaterally accept Mr. Azubalis’s proposals.”

Sahakian pointed to the death of yet another Karabakh Armenian soldier on Thursday evening. The 18-year-old conscript, Aharon Hayrapetian, was shot dead at a frontline section east of the disputed territory.

Hayrapetian is the second Armenian soldier reportedly killed by Azerbaijani forces since the March 5 meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents that was hosted by their Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. In a joint statement with Medvedev, the presidents agreed to strengthen the ceasefire regime and investigate truce violations jointly with the OSCE.

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2343004.html

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Everyone knows there are media, claiming to be independent, but rather having certain political goals and Western-funding, being anti-Armenian in their core, but having an influence on naive Armenians.

THIS IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON ALSO:

US launches cyber spy operation

The American military has initiated an international cyber spy operation that targets online users who use social media networks and other websites to encourage anti-US sentiment.


In order to undertake the massive operation in cyberspace, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) has purchased software designed to create and control false online personas from California-based company Ntrepid, The Huffington Post reported on Thursday.

The software would allow each user to be in command of 10 personas. Each persona is "replete with background, history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographically consistent.”

The users controlling the false personas would be hidden in a variety of ways, including randomizing the IP addresses they accessed the software with, traffic mixing or blending web traffic with that outside of CENTCOM.

The US cyber espionage operation will enable false online personas, also known as sock puppets, to seem like real people when they monitor online discussion blogs, message boards and more.

The online persona project is thought to be completely under the sway of Operation Earnest Voice, which watches over CENTCOM's Information Operations.

According to CENTCOM commander James N. Mattis, the project "seeks to disrupt recruitment and training of bombers; deny safe havens for our adversaries; and counter extremist ideology and propaganda."

Meanwhile, the spyware would not be used in America, or by American owned companies or major social network services such as Facebook and Twitter, the CENTCOM said.

"We do not target US audiences, and we do not conduct these activities on sites owned by US companies," CENTCOM spokesman Commander Bill Speaks said.

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