President-elect speaks, security

Описание: (18 Oct 2003) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of Liberty square, the site of clashes between police and opposition this week
2. Armoured vehicle
3. Soldiers in riot gear start to march
4. Flag flying from government building
5. Armoured vehicle
6. Close up of Independence Day procession with wreath
7. Various of newly elected President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev
8. Wreath laying ceremony for victims of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and unrest during Soviet Union collapse
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ilham Aliev, newly elected President of Azerbaijan:
"I see those events (clashes this week) as riots, as an attempt by the people responsible for disturbances at the beginning of the 1990s to bring back the situation to the same level as it was then. They want chaos and anarchy, but that shall not happen. Azerbaijan is an established state now and all those who took part in rioting and vandalism will have to bear responsibility in accordance with law of the Azerbaijan Republic."
10. Various of military parade on the Independence Day
STORYLINE
Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Ilham Aliev on Saturday blamed the opposition for the riots that took place in the capital after his election win to succeed his ailing 80-year-old father as president.
Speaking on his country's independence day, he added that the opposition's leaders would be held accountable if they were found to have incited the violence.
In his first public appearance since Wednesday's election, Aliev said the unrest that tore through Baku this week had damaged the country's international image.
The unrest gave the impression that disorder reigned in the oil-rich former Soviet republic, he told reporters.
Aliev made the comments as he laid a wreath at Martyrs' Lane, a memorial to both those who died in unrest during the Soviet collapse and in fighting in the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The president-elect said that law enforcement authorities would determine whether the leader of the Musavat opposition party, Isa Gambar, shared responsibility for the clashes and should be arrested.
Gambar, who came in a distant second in the vote with 12 percent, has placed the blame with the regime, who he alleged falsified the vote and had launched a campaign of "total repression".
Aliev received nearly 80 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results.
Observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe condemned the vote as failing to meet international norms, citing violations including ballot-stuff and falsified counting.

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