February 15, 2005 - 17:44 AMT
HAYK DEMOYAN: I WAS SURPRISED AT AZERI JOURNALISTS BEING UNTRAINED AND DILETTANTE AT BUDAPEST TRIAL
"A group of journalists was sent to the trial as delegates from Azerbaijan. I was just surprised at the extent, to which Azeri delegations was untrained and dilettante. You can judge by yourselves -there is the embassy in Budapest, but the Azeri delegation was not provided an interpreter. And it told at the level of publication in Echo Azeri newspaper, titled "Mission Fulfilled", Armenian Defense Ministry representative at the Budapest trial Hayk Demoyan, stated in the course of an on-line interview organized by Open Armenia Forum. In his words, it is natural that the female journalist present in the court could not understand anything without interpretation and was satisfied with observing "suspicious" behavior of the Hungarian experts. In the first publication of February 9 Nuri writes hat "the defense line of the opposing party was pursued by three lawyers, at that as it was found out, two Hungarian lawyers were ethnic Armenians and the third had arrived from Yerevan." "I should mention as information that besides lawyers, prosecutors are also present in courts and the girl merely did not guess, that one of the two Madiars was just the prosecutor. The second - Gabriela Gashpar, is really a lawyer of the Armenian party. However, Nazeli Vardanian is the only one, who is ethnic Armenian at the trial and has the status of an assistant to the Hungarian lawyer," Hayk Demoyan explained. The fact that the Azeri delegation is incompetent was also confirmed by propaganda materials that were submitted to the court were shot on ordinary, domestic camera-recorder. The video cassettes with materials about Khojalu events, conveyed to the judge, were so dirty that an impression as if they were taken from a random video lease office was formed.