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Jews Can Pray
In Azerbaijan

New York (JTA) — The Jews
of Azerbaijan have full
freedom of religion, the re-
public's president, Heydar
Aliyev, assured a visiting
delegation this week.
That message, to the
American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee,
was reinforced in a meeting
with the chief Muslim cleric
of the former Soviet repub-
lic, which is largely Muslim
and borders Iran.
"Any relations that Azer-
baijan may develop with

Iran will not affect the

friendly relations with the
Jews of Azerbaijan," said
the religious leader, Hadj
Alla Pashazade, according to
a participant in the meeting.
The delegation, headed by
JDC President Milton Wolf,
was visiting at the request of
the Azerbaijani president.
The JDC helps support two
synagogues in the capital
city of Baku, as well as the
central Club of Jewish Cul-
ture, Club Aleph.
Since 1989, 16,000 Jews
have left the country for
Israel, but 30,000 remain.
The president said the
Jews who left were not flee-
ing the state, as in other
Soviet republics, but were
being reunified with their
families.
Azerbaijani Jews, he said,
are "free and respected and
live equal life without any
limitations:"
For the president, as well
as members of the Jewish
community, a central con-
cern was the war in Nagor-
no-Karabakh, the Armenian
enclave in the middle of
Azerbaijan.
Throughout Baku, the
JDC visitors would see
widows and bereaved
mothers dressed in black. A
central park has been turned
into a cemetery, with

thousands of new graves.
In their meetings, the JDC
officials were urged to in-
form the world of the
"tragedy" of the war.
Mr. Wolf pledged immedi-
ate humanitarian aid, which
will begin with a shipment
of $10,000 worth of hard-to-
obtain medicines for the
hospitals.
For the JDC officials, the
simple act of exchanging
gifts was a window into the
world on the border between
the former Soviet Union and
the Middle East.
They brought kiddush
cups as a gift for the presi-
dent — a former communist
KGB general — and received,
in turn, a tea set. 0

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