ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia Friday Nalbandian: Attempts by Azerbaijan to avoid responsibility for the pogroms of the Armenian population in Sumgait are in vain Yerevan February 23 Marianna Mkrtchyan. Attempts by Azerbaijan to avoid responsibility for the pogroms of the Armenian population in Sumgait are in vain. This February 23 in Yerevan at a joint press conference with Madagascar Minister of Foreign Affairs Henri Rabari-Ndzak, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said, referring to the statements of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan regarding pogroms in Sumgait. "In today's reality, a strange tandem - the General Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - reminds me a little of the times of Vyshinsky, who in Stalin's times was a prominent prosecutor, then became Foreign Minister." The same style has been observed since the beginning of the Sumgait pogroms. , what remains to be done is to blame the victim for committing the crime, I think, obviously, with whom they are taking the example, "Nalbandian said, and in this context added that the non-recognition of this kind of crime th, their denial and accusation of victims in crimes - create that fertile ground for new crimes that took place after the pogroms in Sumgait - Kirovabad, Baku, Maraga. According to him, the international community witnessed such actions quite recently, during the Azeri aggression in 2016 year, at that time brutal crimes were committed that violated international humanitarian law, and carried out, including in the handwriting, to the militants of the DAISH. "Attempts by Azerbaijan to avoid responsibility are futile: sooner or later they will be held responsible," Nalbandian said.