Azerbaijan’s military leadership covers up negative information - Armenian Defense Ministry

Armenia’s Ministry of Defense has issued a statement expressing its concerns over the Azerbaijani military leadership’s information campaign of misrepresenting cross-border incidents and covering up the information revealing the short-comings in the country’s military.

The statement is provided below:

After the Azerbaijani president’s decree ( dated 24 September 2014), concerning security regulations along the Nagorno-Karabakh Contact Line, Azerbaijan has established a new unprecedented  benchmark of information restriction and distortion of facts in his information policy, Armenia’s Ministry of Defense says in a press release

Moreover, along with full distortion of the facts regarding Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and the situation along the Line of Contact line (represented to both domestic and international communities), and the dissemination of misinformation, that country’s Ministry of Defense has fully suspended publication of any negative reports related to its own Armed Forces, especially those addresing the flops along the Line of Contact with numerous unreasonable human losses.

This behaviour is fully in line with national information policy, where “freedom of speech”, “free media”, “human rights”, “pluralism” and all other characteristics of free information society are eradicated, with free expression being viewed as treason and the generations – brought up on the motives of heroes developing a foe image of the Armenians,  invented history, and crimes.

The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia will continue its open, transparent and impartial information policy being accountable to the society for achievements and more importantly for oversights, because it realizes the full responsibility for overcome them and ensuring the defense of the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian society.

This discrepancy of approaches adopted in the information domain best illustrates the existing and differences moral and value differences between the conflicting sides, which is growing by every day.