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New Mexico Senate honors the 30th anniversary of Azerbaijan’s Black January tragedy

5 Fevral 2020 12:43

On Feb. 4, 2020 the Senate of the U.S. State of New Mexico adopted a proclamation honoring the 30th anniversary of Azerbaijan’s Black January tragedy.  Adopted on the Senate’s floor session, the proclamation condemned the Black January massacre of 1990 and remembered the victims of Azerbaijan’s freedom struggle. Azerbaijan’s Consul General in Los Angeles, Nasimi Aghayev, sent a letter to the leadership of the New Mexico Senate, thanking the senators for acknowledging and honoring the first victims of Azerbaijan’s national independence movement.