YEREVAN. – The genocide of Armenians in Azerbaijan needs to be recognized at the legislative level.

Analyst Grigori Ayvazyan, who is also head of the Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan, stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Wednesday. 

In his words, the matter of national communities can be decisive at some point in the efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict, and therefore the Armenian state should be ready for it.

“Recognition of the genocide of Armenians in Azerbaijan is a necessity,” Ayvazyan noted. “Just as Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence should have been recognized during the [four-day] war of April 2016.”

The analyst expressed a view that the ongoing rallies in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, may turn into demands by the “Karabakh refugees of Azerbaijan.”

“It’s enough to just see who the organizers of those protest actions are,” Grigori Ayvazyan added, in particular. “So, one should always keep in mind that Azerbaijan should not be underestimated, and Armenia should always be reminded of the presence of Armenian refugees [from Azerbaijan].”

He stressed that Armenia should act as the initiator, and by using all possible methods.