What is troubling is the fact that during the discussion in Munich, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan didn’t respond to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev’s statement that Armenians need to try to become self-determined in another territory. This is what First Ombudswoman of Armenia, human rights activist Larisa Alaverdyan told reporters today.

According to her, Aliyev de facto presented the genocide perpetrated against his own people as a counterbalance to the Sumgait pogroms, and there was no response to this either. “Azerbaijan is the only country that acknowledges the scenario of the development of the events in Khojalu, while representatives of the international community recognize the massacres of Sumgait, Maraga and Baku,” Alaverdyan stated, adding that Armenia, as a state, needs to recognize the Sumgait pogroms against the Armenians as genocide.