Day.Az makes statement regarding publications in Armenian media

The article, undersigned by Andranik Stepanian, was entirely devoted to Day.Az section “Funny stories about the Armenian Foreign Ministry.”

Dear Mr. Stepanian,

First of all, thank you for your positive assessment of our resource: "editorial staff and journalists of this Web site [Day.Az – editor’s note] try to consistently adhere to their key slogan: "We only deliver .... " Events and facts are delivered online, the structure of the articles is interesting and regional developments are highlighted profoundly and systematically.”

And now let’s talk about main point of your article.

It is interesting that the stylistic and structural model of the article undersigned by “Andranik Stepanian” makes an impression that the Armenian officials, possibly, from the Armenian Foreign Ministry, were involved in this story as authors or co-authors. In principle, this is understandable, since this Day.Az section deals with activities of the Armenian Foreign Ministry and, apparently, the articles produce the desired effect.

We, on our part, would like to remind the gentlemen that while introducing "Funny stories about the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs” section, Day.Az stated its main purpose in advance:

"OUR PRIMARY GOAL IS NOT ONLY HUMOR. WE DO THIS NOT FOR A FUN

This is just a next attempt to show everyone, including Armenian public representatives in what ridiculous situation the Foreign Office of the neighboring country is... ".

As one can see, the humor is not the most important in this case. So, the attempt by Mr. Stepanian or the lords of Stepanians to focus precisely on this nuance of our section once again testifies that our assumptions about the nature of the ministry’s policy are correct. Alas! It makes no fun, but profound sorrow…

Regarding your statements about one of our authors, we should say you ought not to be disrespectful to journalists’ work, and henceforth to your own. Everything is relative.

Retaining its previous position, Day.Az states that the present tragedy of the Armenian people, including a number of respected representatives, is that they have a leader like Robert Kocharyan, who being the president of the Republic of Armenia claimed that Azerbaijanis and Armenians are genetically incompatible. Their current leader is Serge Sargsyan, who still pursues a policy which has put Armenia in a very complicated political and economic situation

We are journalists of the country which is drawn into the war. We are proud as patriots of our country to have an opportunity to defend our country’s interests by journalistic means that are available to us.

We hope the author or authors of the article will comprehend the essence of our brief answer.

Day.Az