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Day.az, Azerbaijan
13 Oct 06
POLICE DISPERSE ANTI-FRENCH PROTEST IN AZERI CAPITAL
13 October: The United People's Front of Azerbaijan Party attempted
to stage a picket outside the French embassy at 1300 [0900 gmt] today
[protesting against Armenian genocide bill].
Officers of the police department No 39 dispersed about 15 active
party members. Two party members Samil Mahmudov and Bazer Isayev were
detained during the incident.
Despite police pressure, the protesters could read out a resolution
which called on the Azerbaijani population to boycott French goods,
urged the Milli Maclis [parliament] to recognize the genocide of
300,000 Algerians committed by France in 1954-61 and reject Paris's
mediation in the resolution of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict as part
of the OSCE Minsk Group. The resolution also urged the government to
cease all economic ties with France.
13 Oct 06
POLICE DISPERSE ANTI-FRENCH PROTEST IN AZERI CAPITAL
13 October: The United People's Front of Azerbaijan Party attempted
to stage a picket outside the French embassy at 1300 [0900 gmt] today
[protesting against Armenian genocide bill].
Officers of the police department No 39 dispersed about 15 active
party members. Two party members Samil Mahmudov and Bazer Isayev were
detained during the incident.
Despite police pressure, the protesters could read out a resolution
which called on the Azerbaijani population to boycott French goods,
urged the Milli Maclis [parliament] to recognize the genocide of
300,000 Algerians committed by France in 1954-61 and reject Paris's
mediation in the resolution of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict as part
of the OSCE Minsk Group. The resolution also urged the government to
cease all economic ties with France.