Brussels (AINA) -- Following demonstrations held in Baghdad, Stockholm, London, brussels, Detroit and other cities throughout the world, the ChaldoAssyrian Syriac communities of France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom, held a demonstration on Monday February 14th 2005 at 1 PM at the Ambriorix Square in Brussels. The Demonstration was to protest the lockout of Assyrian voters in Iraq. In a memorandum sent to the president of the European Parliament, a coalition of Assyrian organizations urged the EU to open an investigation into the voter lockouts. The demonstration was sponsored by the following Assyrian organizations:

• Assyrian Democratic Organisation (ADO) -- Abroad sections
• Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) -- Europe
• Shuraya Party -- Europe
• Assyrian Liberation Party (GFA)
• Diyzesanrat der Syrisch-Orthodoxen Kirche von Antiochien in Deutschland
• Assyrian Federation in Sweden (ARS)
• Assyrian Federation in Europe (ZAVD)
• Tour Abdin Federation in Holland
• Association des Assyro-chaldyens de France
• Assyrian Society of the United Kingdom
• Institut Assyrien d'Europe (INASE) -- Bruxelles
• Federation syriaque arameenne de Belgique
• Centre Culturel de la Tour de Babel -- Bruxelles
• Assyrische Gemeenschap -- Mechelen
• Ninive Kultureel sportief ontmoetingscentrum -- Antwerpen