ArmenPress
March 3 2005

BAKU RESIDENT DECLARES HIS APARTMENT NEW STATE

BAKU, MARCH 3, ARMENPRESS: A resident of Baku, the capital city of
Azerbaijan, said he was renouncing his citizenship and declaring the
space of his two-room apartment an independent state, which he said
was a constitutional monarchy.
A local daily newspaper Ekho quoted Sabir Mamedov as saying that
his move was prompted by “total injustice” reigning in Azerbaijan. He
refuses to pay utility fees and taxes.
He said he was working to draft the constitution of his state, new
legislation and fasces. He was supposed to declare about the
emergence of a new state on March 2. The new “state” has now a
permanent population of four persons.