There was an exchange of sharp mutual accusations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Yerevan and Baku did not agree on the historical assessments of each other’s national policy – in the last statement, Azerbaijan demanded that the Armenian Foreign Ministry recognize the policy of ethnic cleansing in Karabakh. About it informs Sputnik.
The diplomatic conflict began with publications On January 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia made a statement about the pogroms of the Armenian population in Baku in the 1990s, which contained a reproach to the current leadership of Azerbaijan. “The consistent denial of the pogroms in Baku and other atrocities against Armenians, the glorification of their perpetrators, the continued rooting of hatred towards Armenians are still the state policy of Azerbaijan,” Yerevan said.
Baku’s reaction followed on 15 January. The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the republic, Leyla Abdullayeva, criticized the message of the Armenian side and stated that such accusations were groundless. “Such statements by the Armenian Foreign Ministry indicate that official Yerevan does not seek to normalize relations, but poisons its society with harmful ideas,” she said. In addition, Azerbaijan demanded that Armenia recognize “the policy of ethnic cleansing, and their occupation policy, which lasted almost 30 years, grossly violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis.”
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The mutual claims of the two republics of Transcaucasia intensified after the events of 2020, when Baku seized the territories of Nagorno-Karabakh, which were previously occupied by Armenian troops. The parties have been actively arguing over these lands since the times of the late USSR, and they came under the control of Armenia after the collapse of the Union.
Earlier, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev accused Armenian soldiers of “shooting at Azerbaijanis from behind the backs of the Russian military.” This is how Aliyev described the events of November 2021, when the Russian military base in Gyumri was raised on alarm.
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