[ 22 Feb 2010 15:40 ]
Baku – APA. California-based Azerbaijan-American Council, Association of Turkic-speaking students at Berkeley and Association of Turkish-American Assembly organized a ceremony for commemoration of Khojaly genocide on February 19 at the University of California, Berkeley. Azerbaijan-American Council told APA members of the Azerbaijani community, Azerbaijani students educated in California, officials of the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles and Berkeley students attended the ceremony. Professor Thomas Goltz of Montana University, Professor Thomas Ambrosio of North Dakota State University, Parvin Akhanci of University of California, Davis, Azerbaijan Consulate General official Elshan Baloglanov, ATAA representative Ergun Kirikovali and AAC Director Executive Javid Huseynov addressed the ceremony.
Odious Armenian terrorist, Armenian national hero Monte Melkonian, who was killed by the Azerbaijani soldiers in Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in June, 1993, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.