Saturday 14 June 2008

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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