During a conversation with Armenian News-NEWS.am, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Harutyun Marutyan said the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Armenia has given consent to opening a special section of the Museum-Institute that will comprise three scientific workers who will explore issues related to the genocides of Armenians in Azerbaijan, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Nakhchivan.

Marutyan added that it’s high time to explore the issue at the academic level and present the existing facts to the international community. He also said the Museum-Institute will declare a tender soon and that fluency in English and in some cases knowledge of Azerbaijani will be a prerequisite for future participants.

“The Museum-Institute would like to be actively involved in conducting studies. We need to understand how the atrocities were committed and how they were perceived. We see that Azerbaijan is actively advancing the so-called “Albanian theory” once again, and this can be viewed as one of the types of cultural genocide. The studies need to be conducted in English, published in reputable periodicals and be available for foreigners,” Marutyan added.