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Mexico to Remove Bronze Heidar
10:59, 24 November, 2012
YEREVAN: 24 NOVEMBER, ARMENPRESS: An expert commission of Mexico City
said government should remove the statue of Azerbaijan's former
president that was recently erected along the city's main boulevard.
As Armenpress reports, citing the news report of Associated press,
«the bronze, Stalinesque statue of Geidar Aliyev was erected by the
Azerbaijan Embassy, which paid for the renovation of part of the city
park where it sits. Protesters have said they are offended by a
monument to an authoritarian figure like Mr. Aliyev, who led
Azerbaijan first as Communist Party boss during Soviet times and then
as president from 1993 to his death in 2003». Azerbaijan officials
have said yesterday that removal of the statue could affect diplomatic
relations with Mexico.
For installing Aliyev's monument in Mexico Azerbaijani government has
spent about 5 million dollars on the renovation of Mexican parks.
Earlier the New York Times has reported that when the mayor
inaugurated a pretty little garden fronted by a very large statue at
the edge of the central Chapultepec Park last summer, it seemed
another step forward in his drive to improve the quality of life in
this impossible city.
10:59, 24 November, 2012
YEREVAN: 24 NOVEMBER, ARMENPRESS: An expert commission of Mexico City
said government should remove the statue of Azerbaijan's former
president that was recently erected along the city's main boulevard.
As Armenpress reports, citing the news report of Associated press,
«the bronze, Stalinesque statue of Geidar Aliyev was erected by the
Azerbaijan Embassy, which paid for the renovation of part of the city
park where it sits. Protesters have said they are offended by a
monument to an authoritarian figure like Mr. Aliyev, who led
Azerbaijan first as Communist Party boss during Soviet times and then
as president from 1993 to his death in 2003». Azerbaijan officials
have said yesterday that removal of the statue could affect diplomatic
relations with Mexico.
For installing Aliyev's monument in Mexico Azerbaijani government has
spent about 5 million dollars on the renovation of Mexican parks.
Earlier the New York Times has reported that when the mayor
inaugurated a pretty little garden fronted by a very large statue at
the edge of the central Chapultepec Park last summer, it seemed
another step forward in his drive to improve the quality of life in
this impossible city.