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A protest staged by the Azerbaijani youth outside the Armenian Embassy in Prague, the Czech Republic, has failed thanks to the counter-protest organized by the Armenian community, “Orer” Armenian European magazine told Panorama.am.

The Azerbaijani protesters were welcomed by the Armenian Embassy staff and local Armenian community members, with the flags of Armenia, Artsakh and the Czech Republic, loud national-patriotic music and dozens of posters reading “Hiding behind the human shield is immoral”, “Stop aggressor Aliyev”, “Nagorno-Karabakh is a free country”, the famous assessment of Eleni Theocharous, Member of the European Parliament saying “Azerbaijan not only broke the ceasefire, but also used its own civilians as a human shield” and the others.

According to the source, during the one-hour granted to the Azerbaijanis, they had an opportunity to listen to beloved national songs dedicated to Armenian soldiers, the Armenian Army, Commander Andranik, as well as Aram Khachaturian and System of a Down.

Commenting on the Azerbaijani rally, Tigran Seyranyan, Armenia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Czech Republic, told the following to “Orer” magazine: “According to the information that we obtained the Azerbaijanis living in the Czech Republic staged this small-numbered protest action outside the Armenian Embassy upon the orders from Baku. Azerbaijan must realize that protests over made-up issues will not lead them to anything. It would be more efficient if they implemented the Vienna and St. Petersburg agreements on confidence building measures reached under the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs. The Armenian side has repeatedly slammed the Azerbaijani military’s actions of using their own peaceful population as a human shield. Due to the coordinated actions of the Armenian community of the Czech Republic, the Azerbaijani provocation in fact failed.”