Azerbaijani Embassy in Uzbekistan remembers Black January victims
Tashkent, January 19 (AZERTAC). The Azerbaijani Embassy in Uzbekistan has organized a commemorative event on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the Black January tragedy.
The event participants laid a wreath at a monument to national leader Heydar Aliyev in the foyer of the Embassy.
They viewed photos and watched a documentary about the tragic events that happened in 1990.
Director of Azerbaijan Culture Center Samir Abbasov gave a brief history of the events which led to the 20 January tragedy. He praised the Azerbaijani government`s attention to families of the Black January victims.
Among those attending the commemorative event were of Azerbaijani Ambassador Huseyn Guliyev, Azerbaijan’s military attaché in Uzbekistan Elbrus Orujov, journalist Shovkat Aliyeva, and Uzbek poet Sunnatulla Suleymanov.
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