TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Oct 14 2006

`Our Azerbaijan’ Political Block to Hold Picket in Front of French
Embassy in Azerbaijan

Source: Trend
Author: J.Shahverdiyev

13.10.2006

On October 19, `Our Azerbaijan’ Political Block will hold a picket in
front of the French Embassy in Azerbaijan, the Secretary of the Block
Yusif Muganli told Trend.

He stressed that the decision to hold picket was made on 13 October
in the meeting of the Executive Board.

The picket is linked with French Parliament’s adopting the law
penalizing the denial of so-called `Armenian genocide’.

The Block considers that taking such steps, France demonstrates
disrespect towards its democratic values. The Block decided to appeal
to the Head of Azerbaijan and other international organizations to
debar France from the co-chairmanship in OSCE Minsk Group. It was
state that if France demonstrates such disrespect towards Turkic
world, it will demonstrate the same position with regard to
Nagorno-Karabakh.

Initiated by the Chairman of `Musavat’ Party Isa Gambar, `Our
Azerbaijan’ Block was created in 2003 and presently brings together
nearly 10 political parties.