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Activists of the Azerbaijani Diaspora in Berlin organized a picket Tuesday to condemn a report made by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Work with the Diaspora has said.
At the picket Azerbaijan's flags were waved, slogans "Return our homeland!", "Observe UN resolutions," "Stop occupation policy!" were voiced. The protesters were able to attract the attention of Germany's public to the topic, distributing books and other materials about the realities of the Nagorno Garabagh conflict and the Khojaly massacre committed by Armenians against Azeris in 1992.
The protest aimed to condemn Sarkisian’s report on "The Security and Development in the South Caucasus: Armenia's role in this process", which was made in the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung foundation during the Armenian president's visit to Germany. Sarkisian's address was based on one-sided allegations. Though he tried to show the path of political and economic development for turning the South Caucasus into a stable and powerful region, his main purpose was to substantiate the possibility of Armenia's participation in lucrative economic projects in the region.
Habib Abdullayev (Muntazir), a political emigrant who co-organized the protest, was detained after chanting "Sarkisian is a terrorist and a murderer". Abdullayev was told that he had insulted Sarkisian under German laws. The German police also said that his case would be sent to the prosecutor’s office.
An Azerbaijani joining discussions as the Armenian leader made his speech called Sarkisian "an invader". He said the villages in the Aghdam district have been under the occupation by Armenian and Russian armed forces since 1992.
"I have been unable to go there for eighteen years. How long will you keep my native village under occupation, Mr. Sarkisian?"
20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory, including Upper Garabagh and seven adjacent districts, has been under

Armenian occupation since the two South Caucasus republics signed a precarious cease-fire in 1994 following a lengthy war. Hostilities over the mountainous region of Upper Garabagh in the early 1990s claimed some 30,000 lives and displaced about a million Azerbaijanis. The ceasefire accord was signed in 1994, but the OSCE-brokered peace talks have been largely fruitless so far.*