AZERI PRESSURE GROUP PROTESTS AT FRENCH GENOCIDE BILL

ANS TV, Baku,
16 Oct 2006

A group of the Karabakh Liberation Organization [KLO] members have
attempted to stage a protest outside the French embassy against the
French parliament’s bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian
genocide. One of the protesters threw eggs and tomatoes on the
embassy building.

The protesters could read out their resolution not far from the
embassy. The resolution was handed to the French embassy at the end
of the protest.

The French parliament has openly supported aggressor Armenia, taking
a disgraceful position on Azerbaijan, Turkey, the entire Islamic and
Turkic world, the protesters said in their resolution.

Therefore, the French parliament’s decision must be changed,
and political, economic and cultural relations with France must
be severed. France must be removed from the OSCE Minsk Group
chairmanship and no talks on Nagornyy Karabakh must be conducted on
French territory.

Eighteen people, who attempted to stage the protest, were arrested,
the KLO reported. [Baku’s] Sabayil district police department said
that all detainees had been set free after giving explanations.

[Video showed protest]