27 media leaders refused to attend Pashkina’s press conference

“Kavkazski uzel”in material

It is reported that 27 media executives in Armenia refused to attend Pashkina’s press conference.

This is stated in a statement issued by 27 media executives.

They said that online press conferences are held according to the planned scenario, and questions are agreed in advance with the organizers of the event.

Kavkazski Uzel reminds that the authors of the statement, Nicole Pashkina held an online press conference on November 23, 2021.

“Prime Minister put forward a fake diary at a press conference, said that Armenia The settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by the OSCE Minsk Group and the opening of communications Russia “It will be discussed within the framework of a tripartite commission,” he said political commentator Naira Ayrumyan noted.

“Aykakan Jamanak” publication (Pashinyan Kavkazski Uzel has announced that an online press conference will be held next week with the participation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

However, the exact date of the event is not specified.

“It is known that each publication will have the opportunity to ask only one question,” said a correspondent of Kavkazski Uzel.

That is why Armenia Twenty-seven media directors, editors-in-chief and producers said they were boycotting the press conference.

Questions from pro-government media, Telegram channels and bloggers are heard at the press conference. These questions are most likely agreed in advance with the event organizers. The questions of the remaining media outlets are either ignored, edited or completely distorted, ”the editors-in-chief said in a statement.

“We, the signatories of the following media outlets, refuse to formally ask questions and call for the return of press conferences to the classical format,” the statement said.

The statement was signed by the following persons on June 26 at 00.30 local time (23.30 Moscow time, June 25):

• Bagrat Yesayan, director of Yerkir Media TV channel;
• Aram Abraamyan, editor-in-chief of Aravot newspaper;
• “168 jam” newspaper and “http://168.am”Editor-in-chief of the portal, Armenia Satik Seyranyan, head of the Union of Journalists;
• “http://Aravot.am”Editor-in-chief of the online publication;
• “Graparak” newspaper and “http://Hraparak.am”Editor-in-chief of the portal Armine Oganyan;
• Piruza Meliksetyan, Editor-in-Chief of Irates de Facto newspaper;
• “http://News.am”Editor-in-chief of the portal Armenika Kiviryan;
• Vage Sargsyan, editor-in-chief of the Yerkir newspaper;
• “Pastinfo” information editor-in-chief of the portal Sona Truzyan;
• “Lraber” of “H2” TV channel information program manager Shavarsh Gevorkyan;
• “Yerevan.today” information-Sevak Khachatryan, editor-in-chief of the analytical site;
• Jokhovurd newspaper and http://Armlur.am editor-in-chief of the portal Knar Manukyan;
• “http://Armday.am”Editor-in-chief Tatev Ayvazyan;
• “http://Times.am”Editor-in-chief of the portal Grant Melik-Shakhnazaryan;
• Angela Nalbandian, chief producer of PARA TV;
• “http://7or.amAsmik Sargsyan, editor-in-chief of the website;
• “http://Blognews.am”Editor-in-chief Karen Antinyan;
• “http://Irakanum.am”Editor-in-chief of the site Paylak Fakhradyan;
• http://AntiFake.am Astkhik Matevosyan, editor-in-chief of the site;
• “http://Politik.am”Editor-in-chief Boris Murazi;
• http://LIVEnews.am Janna Charukyan, editor-in-chief of the site;
• Flora Nakhshkaryan, editor-in-chief of the Voice of Armenia newspaper and portal;
• “http://MediaHub.am”Editor-in-chief Tigran Galstyan;
• “http://Panorama.am”Editor-in-chief of the information site Anait Voskanyan;
• Artak Chagaryan, editor-in-chief of Past newspaper;
• “http://SHAMSHYAN.comGagik Shamshyan, editor-in-chief of the website;
• Gevorg Emin-Teryan, Editor-in-Chief of Oragir.news.

The head of the Union of Journalists of Armenia, Satik Seyranyan, called the press conference in this format an insult to journalists.

“The profession of journalism is to ask questions and protest implies the ability to do. Here, journalism and freedom of speech are completely ignored. Thus, they distort the questions, make reductions, and sometimes do not even sound them at all. We are the Prime Minister “Facebook“We are not stenographers of live broadcasts,” he told Kavkazski Uzel.

At an online press conference on November 23, 2021, each of the two special correspondents of Kavkazski Uzel in Armenia sent a question.

European Union One of the questions related to the fulfillment of the Armenian side’s obligations under the Comprehensive and Comprehensive Partnership Agreement between Armenia and SERA was not broadcast at all.

The second question was related to the settlement of the Karabakh conflict and was worded as follows: “Armenia to Arsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) UNIs it ready to deploy an international peacekeeping contingent of the OSCE to Arsakh in order to achieve a full settlement of the conflict on the basis of the proposals developed by the OSCE Minsk Group?

However, the moderator of the online press conference, Tatev Danielyan, mentioned Kavkazski Uzel twice, but the questions were not raised.

Pashinyan for the first time he preferred to continue answering the previous question, and for the second time he generally thought that the people were tired.

“But two more questions can be answered,” said Armine Martirosyan, Kavkazski Uzel’s special correspondent in Armenia.

“Since the questions were sent to the government’s press service in advance, I think Pashinyan He got acquainted with them in advance, and those waters were not desirable for him, “Martirosyan said.