Several members from the Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO), including its chairman Akif Naghi, were arrested on Tuesday after they clashed with police near Baku’s Europe Hotel, where a planning conference for NATO’s “Cooperative Best Effort-2004” military training opened the same day.
About 100 KLO activists attempted to rally in front of the hotel in protest of two Armenian participants of the conference, Firudin Mammadov, a deputy KLO chairman, told the Baku Today. No immediate comments were available from the police.
Mammadov said when the police prevented the protestors from assembling in front of the hotel, a group of 15-20 young KLO activists managed to broke into the hotel via a rear door, after which the work of the conference was stopped for about ten minutes.
KLO had warned the Armenian officers, Colonel Murad Isakhanyan and Senior Lieutenant Aram Hovhanesian from coming to Baku, with a KLO activist threatening them with death.
KLO also blamed Azerbaijani authorities for letting the Armenian officers – who have been involved in the occupation of Azerbaijan’s territories – into the country.
Armenian officers had failed to show up in the first Baku-hosted planning conference for the “Cooperative Best Effort-2004” exercises in January. Armenian foreign ministry then put the blame on the Azerbaijani government for not providing the Armenians with entry visas. But the latter accused the Armenian side in response, saying that Yerevan had already besmirched relations with Baku by occupying one-fifth of Azerbaijan’ territories.
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