AZERBAIJANI YOUTH STAGE PROTEST RALLY IN FRONT OF FRENCH EMBASSY

State Telegraph Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan
January 25, 2012 Wednesday

The members of Irali Public Union staged the protest rally in front
of the French embassy to Azerbaijan after the French Senate approved
a bill criminalizing the denial of officially recognized genocides,
including the armenian genocide.

The rally participants made statement, which says that efforts of
France as co-chair of the OSCE Minsk group in constructive resolution
of Nagorno Karabakh conflict are put in doubt. Use of the double
standards to this problem, shutting eyes to violation of the rights
of over 1 million refugees and IDPs, who were ousted from the occupied
territories of Azerbaijan, causes regret.