May 18, 2004 - 23:16 AMT
AZERI "KARABAKH LIBERATORS" INDIGNANT AT FOREIGN FIRMS COOPERATING WITH NKR
The Azeri Organization for Karabakh Liberation (OKL) plans a series of protest actions in front of the Embassies of Iran, the US, Canada, France and other countries, whose citizens are engaged in enterprise in Nagorno Karabakh. As reported by Zerkalo Baku newspaper, the OKL also intends to hold actions next to the offices of foreign firms, which cooperate with official Baku and the Karabakh authorities simultaneously. "Countries, whose representatives do business in Karabakh unimpeded by the respective state bodies, implicitly deny the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Representatives of those countries should not earn at the expense of Azerbaijan," OKL leader Akif Nagi said. The newspaper reminds that earlier Nagi accused the Iranian authorities for Iranian Armenians establishing a firm for polyethylene pipe production in Nagorno Karabakh. Akif Nagi was most of all indignant on the response of the Iranian Embassy in Baku, which reported that "official Teheran is not responsible for actions of its citizens." Akif Nagi promised that as soon as the OKL "liberates Lachin and Shushi," they will go in for the businessmen, who cooperate with Nagorno Karabakh.