AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Jan 20 2005

AZERBAIJANI STUDENTS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOLD AN EVENT ON
JANUARY 20 TRAGEDY
[January 20, 2005, 18:46:36]

At the initiative of the Embassy of Azerbaijan to the United States,
Azeri students at the Georgetown University (Washington D.C) have
held an event dealing with geopolitical consequences of the January
20, 1900 events, AzerTAj correspondent reports from the U.S. capital.

Speaking before the students and teaching staff of the university,
Taleh Ziyadov and Khazar Ibrahim called the tragic events `beginning
of Gorbachev regime’s end’. Describing the pre-tragedy situation in
the country, they noted that in response to the protest demonstration
of millions of people, the Soviet leaders used local Armenians
organized so-called `pogroms’ against them. At night January 19 – 20,
Soviet troops invaded Baku shooting down a lot of innocent and
armless people.

Participants of the event saw video materials covering the bloody
night including those by CNN.

The speaker noted as well that since independence Azerbaijan has been
pursuing the policy of integration into the Euroatlantic space.
Strengthening economy by successful management of its natural
resources, they said, the country stands for peace and security in
the Caucasus and Caspian basin region. However, the 10 years running
conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, still
remains one of the major obstacles in the way towards development of
our country and the whole Caucasian region.

Finally, the Azerbaijani students responded to questions from
attendees.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress