AZERI POLICE ARREST 12 FOR STORMING NATO CONFERENCE IN BAKU

Turan news agency, Baku
22 Jun 04

22 June: According to the latest data available to the Karabakh
Liberation Organization (KLO), police have detained 12 people who
took part in the protest outside Hotel Europe today. The detainees
were taken to various police departments of Baku.

The protest started in the morning and continued for quite a while
intermittently. It was accompanied with sporadic clashes with police. A
group of protesters burst into the hotels’ ground floor and tried to
disrupt a NATO conference in which two Armenian officers were taking
part. Police and hotel security officers took them out. As a result,
the hotel’s windows were smashed.

The protesters left the hotel at 1330 (0830 gmt), but the building
is still cordoned off by police.

Preliminary reports say that none of the participants in the NATO
conference, including Armenians, suffered in the incident.