NKR MFA: Berliner Zeitung presented distorted information on Karabakh

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Having personally visited the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, Berliner Zeitung newspaper's correspondent, if even desired, couldn't but notice that the people who had experienced terrible hardships, destructions, and grief in an unequal struggle had, however, managed to realize its right to self-determination, heroically stand all the calamities of the war, restore its state infrastructure, and implement radical reforms for establishing a state corresponding to the European standards," the open letter to Berliner Zeitung newspaper Editor-in-Chief said.



"After the World War II, the Germans dreamed for an integrated state and lived with this idea tens of years. We don't think that the German nation's aspiration can be questioned by any other nation.



Exactly 20 years ago, the Berlin wall was destroyed in just a few days by the will of the great powers, and the Germans not only reunited, but also gained full-fledged independence, on the occasion of which we congratulate this distinctive and gifted nation of the Old World.



Nagorno Karabakh gained its independence, having, first of all, neutralized the Azerbaijani aggression, defending the lives of children, women, and old people. Just that's why nobody can question the will and right of Nagorno Karabakh's people to independence. In other words, nobody brought the independence and right to free life to Nagorno Karabakh on a tray. And if today's population of our Republic makes only 140 thousand, then it is also a vivid demonstration of Azerbaijan's evident anti-Armenian policy; otherwise, over a million and a half of Karabakhi Armenians and their descendants would not be citizens of other states today. So, like Germans in the recent past, today we are also striving for our sovereignty.



The Germans have, for many years, cherished as relics the stones and fragments of the once separating Berlin Wall. The situation is totally different in Nagorno Karabakh. Here, the shrines are the marble tombstones of soldiers perished at the Karabakh War for the independence of their homeland. The correspondent of your newspaper could not but notice that.



Unfortunately, we should state that having overcome thousand kilometers, journalist Tobias Asmuth presented a superficial and distorted article to the readers of the newspaper, without inquiring the causes and essence of the Karabakh issue. Similarly, the author could easily write a number of analogous articles, staying at home and using various sites.



However, if freedom of speech and press is equivalent to a sin against truth for the Berliner Zeitung, then it is quite a different matter," NKR MFA letter emphasized.