The Armenian refugees’ problem must remain the focus of the Armenian Government’s attention. On the hand, “it must not be made a fetish of,” which is the case in Azerbaijan, RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan stated at a function on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Armenian pogroms in Baku, Azerbaijan.

“We must focus our attention on the refugee problem, but we must not lose adequate thinking ability, which taking place in Azerbaijan,” Harutyunyan said.

He pointed out that the pogroms put an end to the 250,000-string Armenian community in Baku, and hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcibly displaced from Azerbaijan. The Armenian Ombudsman stressed that “adequate thinking” served as a basis for the incumbent Armenian authorities initiating the Armenia-Turkey normalization process.

T.P.