YEREVAN, AUGUST 18, ARMENPRESS. The scandal over the NKR President Bako Sahakyan’s interview to the electronic newspaper of the French Parliament is a result of the active intervention of the Azerbaijani, perhaps, also the Turkish propaganda machine, NKR President’s spokesman Davit Babayan said in an interview with “Armenpress”.

“In fact, here we can see components of hybrid war. Starting from the April four-day war the world’s prominent media have paid a special attention on Nagorno Karabakh. A number of famous media were publishing various information and materials on Nagorno Karabakh. This process accelerated especially after the four-day war. Recently, the major Argentine TV company has dedicated extensive reports on Nagorno Karabakh. The leading Ukrainian TV channels also report on Nagorno Karabakh. We see this in Russia, the US, the French media. And recently the newspaper of the French Parliament has published the interview with the NKR President on its website which is a great political achievement”, Babayan said.

He said Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey cannot put up with it since it is obvious that their caviar diplomatic methods do not work in the information field. “They have now adopted cunning, insidious policy, but I should say it has showed certain results. The representatives of their propaganda special services have started to criticize that interview through fake accounts, as well as under the Armenian names. This is an absurd. For example, they cut various words from the context, make the word mutual concession to concession, in case when the President said the conflict cannot be solved based on concession. Now they are trying to use the Armenian environment, certain Azerbaijanis are spreading lies under the Armenian names. Unfortunately, they included people with certain Armenian non adequate ideas”, he said.

Babayan said the major aim of this is that Azerbaijan, defeated in the four-day war and having numerous losses, understood that it could not win with its material advantage since we have a very strong ideological component.

“Now Azerbaijan is trying to attack that ideological component, to undermine Armenia-Nagorno Karabakh-Diaspora trinity and create unhealthy atmosphere in our Armenian environment. It is necessary to analyze all this very seriously and make relevant conclusions since such a campaign is for the first time in our reality”, Davit Babayan concluded.