Azer Tag, Azerbaijan
March 26 2005

AZERBAIJANI DIASPORAS TO GREATER ACTIVITY
[March 26, 2005, 17:40:33]

Bulent Gurjam, Chairman of the “Azerbaijani House” in Belgium, held a
press conference on March 25 for media representatives at the State
Committee to Work with Azerbaijani living in Foreign Countries.

B. Gurjam touching up the work done by his organization and its
goals. He noted that an opening ceremony of the monument of Dede
Gorgud attended by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in 2004 had
been held in front of the central building of the World Customs
Organization in Brussels. Azerbaijani House issued a booklet devoted
to the Khojaly genocide in four languages and organized a photo-stand
dealing with this topic.

Representative of the State Committee said that a joint meeting of
Azerbaijani Diaspora Organizations had been held in Vienna on March
17-23 and Novruz Bayram had been celebrated. He stressed the
importance of holding such events in Europe in order to withstand
lies disseminated by Armenian lobby and bring the truth of Azerbaijan
to world community’s notice. On the occasion of the Genocide of
Azerbaijani Day (March 31) Azerbaijani compatriots together with
members of Turkish Diaspora will march on April 2 to the OSCE office
in Vienna.

Then were answered a questions of the mass media representatives.