ORGANIZATION FOR LIBERATION OF KARABAKH WILL GO ON PROTEST AGAINST ARMENIANS VISITING BAKU
KarabakhOpen
05-09-2007 11:35:58
The Organization for Liberation of Karabakh will go on protest in
different parts of Baku on September 5 and 6 in connection with the
visit of Armenians to Baku, the chair of the OLK Akif Nagi told
Trend. On these days the meeting of the foreign ministers of the
CIS are meeting in Baku. The representatives of the foreign ministry
of Armenia are also participating in the meeting. The government of
Azerbaijan guaranteed their safety.
Nagi said the Armenian government tries to have everyone forget
about the occupation of Karabakh and to set up relations with
Azerbaijan. According to him, the visit of Armenians to Baku favors
this goal. He said they will go on protest despite the warning of
the foreign ministry, and they do not fear arrests.
During the NATO conference in Baku on June 22, 2004 in which the
Armenian officers participated, the OLK activists tried to prevent
this event. As a result, the activists were arrested, the chair of the
OLK was sentenced to five years, another five people were sentenced
to four years. The court of appeal changed the verdict and the chair
of the OLK served two years, the activists served one year.
Nagi said they will go on protest against the participation of
Armenian sportsmen in the world wrestling championship on September
17 in Baku. The OLK activists will be picketing in different parts
of the city from September 15.
The OLK was set up on January 28, 2000 in Baku. The members are
refugees, displaced persons, intelligentsia, young and older
generations.
The persons who will visit the occupied Azerbaijani territories without
the approval of the Azerbaijani government will face problems with
entry to Azerbaijan, said the spokesman of the foreign ministry of
Azerbaijan Khazar Ibrahim in an interview with the Echo in commenting
the visit of the Swiss astrophysicist, professor of the University
of Geneva to Karabakh.
"We register everyone who visited illegally the occupied territories
of Azerbaijan. Measures will be taken regarding these persons," said
the Azerbaijani diplomat. As to the suggestion that the professor
might have been unaware, Khazar Ibrahim said: "The foreign ministry
and our embassies in the world inform the societies where they are
accredited that entry to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan
requires the permission of the government of our country."