Azeri general reportedly becomes police chief

Yeni Musavat, Baku
7 Jul 04

The Interior Ministry’s special commission has finished an
investigation into the incident which occurred during the Armenian
officers’ visit to Baku [for a NATO planning conference]. The chief of
the Nasimi district [of Baku] police department, Bagir Bagirov, has
been dismissed and several police officials given a severe reprimand
for a failure to ensure the security of the NATO-organized conference
participants.

Let us recall that members of the Karabakh Liberation Organization
picketed Hotel Europe, the venue of the conference, on 22 June.

[Passage omitted: Bagirov becomes deputy head of the Interior Ministry
main public security department]

PS: According to information received at a later hour, [chief of the
Interior Ministry department to combat organized crime] Vilayat
Eyvazov, who has recently been promoted to general, was appointed the
chief of the Nasimi district police department. You will read our
comments on this appointment in the context of relations within the
power-wielding circles in tomorrow’s issue.