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US allocates $40mln to support Press Freedom

04 May 2006 [08:02] - TODAY.AZ
"Though press is free in several fields in Azerbaijan here are series of restrictions that affect activity of press negatively," the US Embassy to Azerbaijan Public Affairs Officer Jonathan Henick stated at the press conference dedicated to World Press Freedom Day.

The government of America considers freedom of press as main principles of democracy in Azerbaijan as well as in different places of the world, and added that his country allocated $40mln to support Press Freedom all over the world.

Jonathan Henick told of the history of the press freedom in his country. Yet in 1735 not ensuring the claim raised against one publisher is evaluated as victory of press (the Court made award on his right criticizing the government), APA reports.

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