Today.Az » Politics » Nushirevan Maharramli: “Government presents bureaucratic obstacles to normal activity of mass media”
19 July 2005 [08:44] - Today.Az
“It will be very difficult to watch how efficiently the agreement memorandum signed by mass media is complied with. We have not defined its mechanism yet. It wouldn’t be necessary if the public consciousness of society were in high level”.

APA was told by chair of National Television and Radio Council (NTRC) Nushirevan Maharramli.

The chair of the Council stated regrettably that, the aggressive mass media which caused the necessity of memorandum have not signed the document and have not participated in its discussion. Stating that, disorderliness is observed in the celebration of professional holidays of journalists, chairman of NTRC expressed his dissatisfaction on celebration of jubilee ceremonies by radio, television and press representatives separately.

According to him, journalism should not be divided into parts and there must be common holiday for the journalists. N.Maharramli also stated that the government presents bureaucratic obstacles to normal activity of mass media.

He considers, though the licenses of the televisions in the country are not valid they are not issued new licenses. N.Maharramli said that, NTRC will issue licenses to the televisions by symbolic prices for the period of 3 months for the regulation of their activities in the election period”.



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