Another Active Azeri Initiative in the UK

LONDON HOSTING EXHIBITION 'AZERBAIJAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE'

It is worth going to this exhibition to complete your education of the Caucasus and its issues.

It is situated in the basement of the main SOAS building near the student's cafe and bar.

This you need to know because the staff in the museum and the main building reception were unaware of the exhibition.

There are six panels (if I remember rightly) of information held in locked glass cases.

There were no pamphlets to take away.

The sort of things you will learn include (please add to the list after you go):

- how to adopt ancestry starting from pre-historic people even thought your quite different ethnic tribe did not arrive till centuries later

- how to draw a map of the Caucasus in symbolic shades of green omitting a complete republic

(on the subject of maps, Rouben Galichian has produced a comprehensive analysis of a recent Azeri publication distributed in London)

- how to view the Armenian church at odds with the other churches in the area, yet another example of how the Armenians do no fit in

(photos of Gandzasar and Khoduvang were labelled as Albanian churches, one of the people who are adopted as Azeri)

- nevertheless despite being non-entities in that area, Armenian nationalists were somehow able to contrive the Karabagh conflict without cause of provocation

(Karabagh occupies a whole panel to itself and is worth reading to see how the Azeris portray the problem to others).

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Another Active Azeri Initiative in the UK

LONDON HOSTING EXHIBITION 'AZERBAIJAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE'



Trend News Agency

June 5 2008

Azerbaijan



UK, London, 5 June / Trend News corr G. Ahmadova/The School of Oriental

and African Studies (SOAS) of the London University is hosting an

exhibition ' Azerbaijan: Past, Present and Future', organized by

the UK-based Odlar Yurdu organization. The exhibition is assisted by

the Azerbaijani Embassy in London. Representatives of the diplomatic

corpse, students and professors, as well as representatives of the

research centres and scientific circles of the UK, participated in

the opening ceremony.



Stands with information and photos about the history, culture, art and

economy of Azerbaijan are displayed at the exhibition. Special stands

devoted to the Armenian occupation and history of Nagorno-Karabakh,

catalogues with different information on the subject are also

available.



A special video film about Azerbaijan was demonstrated during the

opening ceremony. Azerbaijani Ambassador to UK, Fakhraddin Gurbanov,

delivered a speech. He spoke about Azerbaijani history, culture,

literature and current political course. He noted that the exhibition

would play an invaluable role to popularize the truth about Azerbaijan

amongst the western community.



The exhibition will last for a month. That is the first event held

in such a prestigious high school as SOAS.





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