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Azerbaijani students hold protest actions outside French embassy in Georgia - PHOTOSESSION

Azerbaijani students hold protest actions outside French embassy in Georgia - <font color=red>PHOTOSESSION</font>

31 January 2012 15:32 (UTC +04:00)

They chanted slogans against French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Georgian, Azeri and English. Then deputy chairman of the Confederation of Georgian Turks Asad Aliyev read a statement addressed to the French Senate.

The statement reads that this decision violates not only the freedoms of speech and thoughts of Turks, but also French citizens. â€œThis is an issue of historians, but not the French Senate. The law is against the 34th article of the French Constitution and will force the Turkic students to interrupt their education in France. It will also prevent the peace and reconciliation in the South Caucasus. On behalf of 600 000 Turks of Georgia, we express protest against this wrong decision. Four non-governmental organizations, which joined this protest action, decided to boycott all French events in Georgia. We will continue protest actionsâ€.

The statementâ€™s text translated into French and English was submitted to the French embassy.