Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
July 30 2004

OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS FOR PROTEST AGAINST ARMENIAN OFFICERS`
ARRIVAL IN BAKU

BAKU, 30.07.04. The Unified Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (UAPFP)
will be organizing a series of pickets outside the ministries of
Defense and Foreign Affairs, as well as the embassies of NATO member
states in Baku to protest against the participation of Armenian
officers in NATO training to be held in Azerbaijan this September.

MP Gudrat Hasanguliyev, chairman of the UAPFP, told a Tuesday news
conference that his party had applied to several international
organizations and some foreign embassies in Baku requesting them to
prevent the Armenian officers` visit to the Azerbaijani capital.

Hasanguliyev stressed that if the Azerbaijani community showed a
strong protest the relevant governmental bodies and international
organizations would give in.