NGOs insisting on protest action

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Sept 9 2004

Baku, September 8, AssA-Irada

On Tuesday representatives of 62 NGOs, on the initiative of
the National NGO Forum, discussed the Armenian officers’ planned
participation in the NATO exercises to be held in Azerbaijan shortly
within the Partnership for Peace program.

The participants decided to hold a march on September 11 in protest
against the arrival of Armenian military men in Baku.

However, the Mayor’s Office of Baku did not register and returned
the notification letter it received from the NGO Forum on Wednesday,
explaining it by the fact that the letter was not received within
five days ahead of the protest action, as required.

The organization has further decided to hold the protest action at
4-6 p.m. on September 13 along one of the approved routes.*