Azerbaijan Embassy to Kyrgyzstan remembers Black January victims
Bishkek, January 21 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijan`s Embassy to Kyrgyzstan has held a commemorative event to mark the 24th anniversary of the January 20 tragedy. The event started with a minute of silence, and the participants then watched a documentary on the tragic events that happened on January 20, 1990.
Ambassador Hidayat Orujov gave a brief history of the events that led up to and followed the tragedy.
He said national leader Heydar Aliyev came to the permanent representative office of Azerbaijan in Moscow to hold a press conference, in which he strongly condemned the brutality of the Soviet troops in the capital of Azerbaijan.
The Embassy sent books on the history of the January 20 tragedy to the Kyrgyz government, social organizations, diplomatic corps and journalists.
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