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    Azerbaijani Media Protest Visit of Armenian Officers

    Baku Today, Azerbaijan
    Sept 3 2004

    Media in Azerbaijan released a statement protesting visit of Armenian
    officers to Baku to attend training to be held within NATO
    Partnership for Peace Program on September 12, 2004.

    The statement considers visit of Armenian officers who occupied
    Azerbaijan's almost 20 per cent of territory as a stab against
    independence of Azerbaijan.

    "Letting the officers of occupational forces in the training
    facilities of Azerbaijan, letting them train together with our
    soldiers means disrespect towards the military interests of the host
    country and playing with the nerves of the Azerbaijan nation," reads
    the statement.

    "We think that admission of the Armenian forces to Baku is insult to
    Azerbaijani nation, which lost thousands of its sons, aggravates a
    political situation in the country, causes mass protest, and creates
    ground for infringement of existing stability and unpredictable
    negative consequences."

    "Considering all of the above mentioned, we, undersigned media
    representatives of Azerbaijan categorically condemn planned visit of
    the Armenian militants to Baku. We declare that as a sign of the
    protest and not being beyond our professional activity, on Saturday,
    September 4th, as an action of protest electronic media will suspend
    its broadcast for three hours and newspapers will publish the first
    pages empty."

    The statement further reads: "Depending on development of events we
    reserve the right to broaden our protest activities even further and
    to suspend our activity for longer term. This statement is available
    for other media representatives to join.

    ANS Group of Companies, Vahid Mustafayev, President
    Ayna-Zerkalo, Elchin Shikhli, Editor-in -Chief
    Yeni Musavat, Qabil Abbasoglu, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
    Azadliq, Qanimat Zahidov, Editor- in-Chief
    Azer.Net Group of Companies, Ramin Iskenderov
    Echo, Rauf Talishinski, Editor-In-Chief
    Iki Sahil, Vugar Rahimzadeh, Editor-in-Chief
    525-ci, Rashaf Majid,Editor-In-Chief
    Sharg, Akif Ashirli
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