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Ukrainian FM prepares reply to Azerbaijani embassy

Politics Materials 8 December 2009 12:45 (UTC +04:00)
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is preparing a response to the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kiev's protest, the FM's Press Service head Valery Jigun told Trend News.
Ukrainian FM prepares reply to Azerbaijani embassy

Ukraine, Kiev, Dec. 8 / Trend Z. Novosvitsky /

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is preparing a response to the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kiev's protest, the FM's Press Service head Valery Jigun told Trend .

The embassy delivered a diplomatic note to the FM after the screening of an anti-Azerbaijani film on the Inter television channel Dec. 7, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev told Trend yesterday.

After Euronews, Inter prepared and presented an anti-Azerbaijani film about Karabakh.

Jigun said Ukraine's toward the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has not changed.

"We think that this conflict must be solved peacefully on the basis of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity," he said.

He added that Inter is a commercial channel, and its programs do no reflect state interests.

"The Ukrainian FM cannot bear responsibility for programs on this channel. There is freedom of speech in Ukraine," he said.

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