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  • Police Stops Unauthorized Picket Outside U.S. Embassy In Baku

    POLICE STOPS UNAUTHORIZED PICKET OUTSIDE U.S. EMBASSY IN BAKU

    Interfax News Agency
    April 9 2008
    Russia

    A group of activists of the Modern Musavat party attempted to organize
    an unauthorized picket outside of the U.S. embassy in Baku, Interfax
    was told at the party office on Wednesday.

    The action involving up to 20 people was held in protest against the
    negative stance of the United States during the vote on the U.N.

    document on the situation in occupied Azerbaijani territories. The
    protesters unfolded posters denouncing the attitude of countries co-
    chairing the OSCE Minsk group for the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh
    during the vote at the U.N. General Assembly.

    The picketers urged the Azeri authorities to give up the mediation
    of the Minsk group in the conflict.

    After a petition of the protesters was handed to embassy officials
    the police removed the picketers from the embassy building.
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