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    AZERI PRESSURE GROUP DESCRIBES RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS' VISIT TO ARMENIA AS "BETRAYAL"

    Turan News Agency, Azerbaijan
    Sept 12 2006

    Baku, 11 September: The Civic Solidarity youth organization has
    demanded that 10 "enemies of the people" be stripped of Azerbaijani
    citizenship for their recent visit to Armenia within the Camp of
    Mutual Understanding project. Those enemies are the head of the
    Azerbaijani National Committee of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly,
    Arzu Abdullayeva, rights activists Nigar Abdullayeva, Rana Yuzbasova
    and Fidan Mammadova and journalists Seymur Baycan, Ismayil Abdulazimov
    and Xamis Masimov.

    The cause of such a strong reaction is a visit by these individuals
    to the Gughark camp in Armenia.

    The youth organization said in a statement that the camp hosted a
    meeting of representatives of Armenian and Azerbaijan youth at the
    initiative of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly and that representatives
    of Nagornyy Karabakh also attended the meeting. The authors of the
    statement believe that a visit to Armenia is "a betrayal" and demand
    that government agencies strip these people of Azerbaijani citizenship,
    confiscate their passports and expel from the country international
    organizations that prepare such projects.

    In turn, the Azerbaijani National Committee of the Helsinki Citizens'
    Assembly issued a statement denying these accusations. International
    law rejects xenophobia - eternal enmity between nations. The
    accusations voiced against the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly are aimed
    at casting a shadow on the organization's activity, the statement said.
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