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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.