ACTION AGAINST CONCESSIONS IN KARABAKH ISSUE HELD IN FRONT OF ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY
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Nov 21 2008
Azerbaijan
The protest against the territorial concessions was held in front of
the Armenian Foreign Ministry in Yerevan on November 21.
The action participants sent a petition to Armenian Foreign Minister
Edward Nalbandyan with a demand not to cede a single piece of land.
"Possible ceding of any of the liberated lands is a crime against
the Armenian statehood and an inadmissible aggression against the
life of Armenian soldiers", says the petition.
Armenian police officers were deployed near the Foreign Ministry.
No incidents were recorded and after long talks between the organizers
of the action and police the event ended peacefully.
The organizer of the event was Miatsum initiative.
Film director Tigran Khzmalyan, head of the organization "Protection
of liberated lands" Jirayr Sefilyan, participan of the initiative
Alexander Kakanyan and others got involved into the meeting,.
The participants had stands with slogans "Artsakh-Armenia-unification",
"Tho se who cede land are betrayers" and so on.
According to deputy of the Heritage parliamentary faction Heritage
Zarui Postandjan told reporters that the action ended under police
pressure, which stated that the event is not sanctioned.
The deputy noted that the protest also involved representatives
of Armenian ombudsman, who fixed the fact of creating obstacles in
holding the action.
Postandjan promised that she will raise the issue in the Armenian
parliament about the lawfulness of such actions of the police,
especially because the action participants raised such an important
issue for the Armenian statehood.