APA, Azerbaijan
March 5 2010

Armenian Youth Federation protests Azerbaijani Consul General’s speech
at Pacific Club in Los Angeles

[ 05 Mar 2010 18:16 ]

Baku ` APA. Consul General of Azerbaijan to Los Angeles Elin
Suleymanov delivered speech at the event organized by the World
Affairs Council, Orange County at the Pacific Club on March 4. He
spoke about the role of Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus, APA reports.
The Consul General informed the participants about the leadership of
Azerbaijan in the region and its balanced and pragmatic foreign policy
founded by Heydar Aliyev and successfully carried out by President
Ilham Aliyev.

US former ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish, representatives of
socio-political quarters, as well as Azerbaijani and Turkish
communities of California attended the event. The Consul General said
Azerbaijan was a tolerant and multi-cultural country, as well as first
secular country in the Muslim world.

Armenian community remaining loyal to its radical traditions held a
non-constructive action outside the Pacific Club in a protest against
the Azerbaijani diplomat’s speech. Armenian Youth Federation, which is
misled by the Armenian radicals and not understanding the realities
even partly, participated in the action. Nearly 100 Armenians used
different methods to prevent the event. They breached public order and
local legislature and attempted to enter the Club to break the event,
but the event was successfully ended.