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Today on her arrival in Moldova the Parliamentary Advocate Aurelia Grigoriu called a press conference in connection with the scandal connected with her presentation in the parliament, where she presented the Azerbaijani version of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, completely ignoring the position of the Armenian side.

It is noteworthy that Gregory attended the press conference accompanied by a lawyer who interfered those asking questions, interrupted and made long speeches. In the end, the journalists could not stand it and offered the lawyer to convene his own press conference and act as he wants and to stop interfering the work of the journalists.

Grigoriu chose the tactics of complete denial of her guilt in the erupted scandal, blaming the Armenian side. She also refused to apologize in response to a fair call of the representatives of the Armenian Diaspora, saying that she has not offended anyone.

Representative of Armenian community Sergei Osipyan noted, "You covered the issue one-sidedly and you realized it deep in your heart. If I were you, I would apologize. You have become a tool of propaganda."

In the same time Grigoriu denied disinformation of the Azerbaijani media according to which she allegedly had to “barricade herself from the raging crowds that had surrounded her hotel." She noted that "the Armenian authorities undertook measures for her security and kept the order." The ombudsman also failed to explain why she did not apply to the police having received threats by phone.

The Ombudsman failed also to answer the question of the blogger and political scientist Ernest Vardanyan, in which of the four UN resolutions, which Gregoriu had referred to in her speech, she had met anything written about "million refugees", "20% of the occupied territories" and "Khojalu". The confused ombudsman replied that it is not about the resolutions of 1993 but the resolution of the UN General Assembly on 14 March 2007.

In reality, she rather meant the resolution of 2008, which she speaks of in her speech, but as far as Mrs. Grigoriu is not familiar neither with the content of the resolutions, nor the context, then it seems to be quite normal for her to confuse them. However, it does not matter, because even in that resolution there is no and there cannot be such a text. That is, Moldovan Ombudsman deliberately misleads the public.

Grigoriu answered numerous comments about the fact that instead of focusing on problems of human rights in Moldova, she had devoted much of her speech to the problems of that region, which is irrelevant to her country, she said that she was not allowed to speak till the end. Aurelia Gregoriu "also did not have time" to, allegedly, tell about the massacre of Armenians in Maragha.

She lied once again saying that on her Facebook page the full text of her speech is published, where allegedly there are theses on the Armenian refugees from Baku, Sumgait and Kirovabad; this is not true.

When she was objected by the journalists who noted that the video of her speech clearly showed that she misused the regulated time, and she was to start her speech with the arrests in Transdniestria, and not by calling "occupation" the thing which in Moldova is called “reforms”, the Ombudsman continued to insist that she was not allowed to speak, and promised to provide the video" later ".

Grigoriu did not deny the fact of her participation in the conference held in Baku on the eve of her visit to Yerevan. She also confessed that she did not raise the issue of political prisoners, for example, with her colleague Ilgar Mammadov and did not make a speech on violations of the rights of the Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the pogroms in Baku and Sumgait. She noted that the theme of her report was different.

Grigoriu also refused to comment on the fact that the theses of her report repeat word for word the propaganda text, published by the Azerbaijani Embassy in Moldova on the website of the Azerbaijani community. Meanwhile, she noted, that she is not going to resign, despite the rumors about her being politically biased in favor of Azerbaijan.

"Ombudsman is the person who is always barking like a dog," Aurelia Grigoriu described herself.