OFFICIAL NEWS
PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES EMPLOYEES OF NATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION
In the message, the President especially emphasizes that the national radio and television have always plaid an indispensable role in development of Azerbaijani literary language, enlightening the people, propaganda of national culture and literature as well as dissemination of the ideas of unity and solidarity of the world Azerbaijanis.
According to the message, after Azerbaijan regained its state independence, radio and television started broadcasting under the new socio-political and legal conditions, and have played an important role in providing informational support for the vital processes taking place in Azerbaijan, and in the implementation of socio-economic, political and regal reforms in the country.
At present, the Azerbaijan’s radio and television sector is steadily expanding: along with the organization Azerbaijan Tele-radio Broadcasting reorganized to the Joint Stock Company, a number of all-republican and regional private TV and radio stations, as well as the Public Tele-radio Broadcasting Company are operating in the country, the message says.
The legal basis for TV and radio operation is being brought to conformity with the European and world standards, it says.
In the message, President Ilham Aliyev expresses confidence that Azerbaijan’s television and radio organizations operating under the conditions of market economy and free competition, political pluralism and democracy, will pay more attention to the urgent problems of society, ensure the increasing demands of the audience for information, and produce alluring programs meeting interests and tastes of different categories of people.