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By Sara Rajabova

Berlin blamed Yerevan for the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which emerged in 1988 over Armenia’s unfounded territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor.

The German government has indicated in its recent report the issue of the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia.

The 11th Human Rights Report said Armenia keeps Azerbaijan`s Nagorno-Karabakh and its surrounding seven regions under occupation since the beginning of 1990s.

The report noted that Armenia has violated the internationally recognized territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, and that hundred thousands of people cannot return to their homelands.

“ The responsibility of existing situation of human rights in those territories lies upon official Yerevan.”

Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that caused a brutal war in the early 1990s. Long-standing efforts by U.S, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far.

The bloody war left 700,000 civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the regions adjoining it, as well as the regions bordering with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh without homes.

Moreover, 250,000 Azerbaijanis were expelled from Armenia and became refugees due to Armenia's ethnic cleansing policy after the emergence of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan.

The Azerbaijanis who had displaced from their homes as result of the brutal war were forced to live in refugee camps, tents in very difficult conditions.

As a result of the military aggression of Armenia, over 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed, 4,866 are reported missing and almost 100,000 were injured, and 50,000 were disabled.

The UN Security Council has passed four resolutions on Armenian withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.

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