
ArmInfo. Press Secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Ani Badalyan accused "Russia Today" and "Radio Liberty" of actively disseminating the same false theses related to the country's route through Syunik.
At the same time, the representative of the Armenian Foreign Ministry wondered whether this is a situation from the fantasy genre?
"This synchronicity, which seemed incredible and related to the fantasy genre at the time, is clearly visible not only in the titles and content of the materials published almost simultaneously by "Russia Today" and "Radio Liberty", but also in the identical photo collages to them. It is difficult to consider this a simple coincidence," she noted.
According to Badalyan, the "information" reflected in such publications has no relation to reality and is regarded by Yerevan as part of a hybrid war against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia.
"Radio Liberty outdid itself yesterday, forgetting the minimum knowledge of geography and looking for non-existent territories, non-existent names on the territory of the Republic of Armenia. Let us recall that in the Republic of Armenia there is a territory called "Syunik", and the use of different toponyms calls into question respect for the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia," added the representative of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
According to her, it is difficult to call it a coincidence that such materials are sometimes published without prior proper clarification of the position of the Armenian Foreign Ministry on their content.
"Another article published on the radio station's website on the same day said that "the Foreign Ministry press secretary was unavailable today," although the press secretary literally immediately communicated directly with the coordinator of the relevant publication, expressing official dissatisfaction with the publication about Syunik and demanding that the material be removed.
In the end, unprofessionalism and conscientious journalism or ordinary manipulation? We leave the right to choose to the subscribers and readers of this post, although for us the answer is obvious: all together," she noted.
In conclusion, Badalyan advised, instead of deleting the post, to think about its consequences in advance. She accompanied her publication on Facebook with a photo of the publications of the above-mentioned publications.
Radio Liberty posted a video about the so-called "Zangezur Corridor" on its X (Twitter) page. The video was titled: "Iran is afraid of this, Turkey dreams of this, the US wants to be part of it. Welcome to Zangezur." Thus, the radio station used narratives artificially introduced by the Azerbaijani side. After criticism, this post was deleted.