POLICE STOPS UNAUTHORIZED PICKET OUTSIDE U.S. EMBASSY IN BAKU

Interfax News Agency
April 9 2008
Russia

A group of activists of the Modern Musavat party attempted to organize
an unauthorized picket outside of the U.S. embassy in Baku, Interfax
was told at the party office on Wednesday.

The action involving up to 20 people was held in protest against the
negative stance of the United States during the vote on the U.N.

document on the situation in occupied Azerbaijani territories. The
protesters unfolded posters denouncing the attitude of countries co-
chairing the OSCE Minsk group for the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh
during the vote at the U.N. General Assembly.

The picketers urged the Azeri authorities to give up the mediation
of the Minsk group in the conflict.

After a petition of the protesters was handed to embassy officials
the police removed the picketers from the embassy building.