Armenia declared hostile narratives about the "genocide of Azerbaijanis" unacceptable
Yerevan hopes that peace with Baku will put an end to hostile and false narratives. This is how the Armenian Foreign Ministry responded to a statement by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, which, in Yerevan's view, contained false accusations that "in 1918, Armenian groups committed genocide against Azerbaijanis."
Armenia noted that decades of conflict have created a number of hostile and false narratives that continue to be used at the state level in Azerbaijan. Yerevan called on Baku to adhere to the Washington Declaration of August 2025, according to which the parties committed to closing the chapter of hostility, eliminating incitement to hatred, and beginning to build good-neighborly relations.
As a reminder, Azerbaijan declared March 31 as Azerbaijani Genocide Day. The country's authorities believe that after the October Revolution of 1917, under the leadership of Stepan Shaumyan, the leader of the Caucasian Bolsheviks, the Armenian Dashnaks and the Baku Soviet carried out a plan to purge the Baku Governorate of Azerbaijanis under the pretext of fighting the counterrevolution. According to Baku, they committed mass murder, robbery, and ethnic cleansing.
