USAN receives a Black January proclamation
from the Mayor of nation's capital, Washington D.C.
Washington D.C. - In response to the U.S. Azeris Network (USAN)'s Black January campaign and activism of its members, Mayor Adrian Fenty of Washington, D.C., extended formal recognition and official commemoration of the Black January 1990 tragedy. The proclamation is included below as well as attached with this press release. It will be available online at the USAN website's repository of all proclamations received by the Azerbaijani-American community. USAN thanks Mayor Fenty for issuing the proclamation, and the USAN members who took part in the campaign.
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Black January
January 20, 2010
A PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
WHEREAS, on January 20, 2010, Azerbaijani-Americans around the world will commemorate the 20th anniversary of Black January; and
WHEREAS, Azerbaijan was invaded on the night of January 19-20, 1990 and hundreds of Azerbaijanis were killed and wounded in a courageous resistance against their attackers; and
WHEREAS, today Azerbaijanis remember this tragic event as one of a series of events that later led to the independence of Azerbaijan:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, THE MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, do hereby ask the residents of this great city to remember the victims of Black January.
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Adrian M. Fenty
Mayor, District of Columbia
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The U.S. Azeris Network (USAN) <http://www.usazeris.org/> is a registered non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian genuine grassroots advocacy and voter education network that is facilitating political activism and efforts by the Azerbaijani-Americans and other Turkic-Americans and their associations, organizations, councils, conferences, and other formal, semi-formal and informal groups, on federal, state and local levels. USAN is the first nationwide grassroots organization uniting Azerbaijani-Americans, being created by the grassroots, for the grassroots.
