The Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) of Armenia has published new evidence from the speech of the president of Azerbaijan as a manifestation of Armenophobia.

The ombudsman's respective statement reads:

“These are segments from the speech of the 7th Congress of the ‘New Azerbaijan’ party of the President of Azerbaijan. This presentation simply begs these questions: who, after all, is speaking in fascism language; and, how will there be peace under these conditions when the President of the country (Azerbaijan) proudly emphasizes that an entire generation has grown up with hatred towards Armenia and its population.

‘The younger generation has grown up with (...) hatred for the enemy, and this young generation has liberated our lands from the invaders.’

‘Armenia is in an isolated state today, while we are building relations with all our neighbors very effectively, based on friendship and good neighborliness. This was also a kind of preparation. I want to say frankly that if preparatory work had not been done in this area, then we could have faced difficulties in the second Karabakh [(Artsakh)] war. Armenia has isolated itself. In other words, we isolated it from regional projects, from oil and gas projects, ruined their economy, and we can say with a sense of pride that we are the main factor here, as any independent economic expert can confirm. We exposed Armenia as an ambivalent and unstable country with no future. Demographic problems arose, which in itself led to shrinking of the economy.’

‘Today Armenia shies away from cooperation, attempts to hamper the implementation of the Zangazur corridor. But they will fail. We will make them. We will force them. We will achieve our goals, just as we drove them out of our lands.’

Armenia’s Human Rights Defender expresses their thankfulness to Mr. Ruben Melkonyan, the Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and to Ms. Mariam Melkonyan, a lecturer at the same faculty for their highly professional assistance in analyses and interpretation of relevant materials.”