The Caucasus Center of Peacemaking Initiatives has issued a statement, voicing complaints that its efforts to organize an Azerbaijani film festival in Armenia meet resistance and pressure.
The organization says its plans to hold the film festival, Stop, in the third largest city of Vanadzor are now being postponed.
The event had been earlier boyvotted in Gyumri after an active protest backed by the city’s mayor, Vardan Ghukasyan, and the owner of FC Shirak, Arman Sahakyan.
“Different organizations, abusing their authority, exert pressures on the owners of all the cinema halls that could potentially be film venues. The intimidated owners have to reject the transaction against their own will, and statutory functions,” reads the statement.
Armenian News
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