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Ex-ombudsperson Larisa Alaverdyan calls on the Armenian National Assembly to elaborate and adopt a document clearly defining the crimes perpetrated by the Soviet Azerbaijani authorities as genocide on the 30th anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms.

“Finally, a document should be adopted giving a clear-cut definition of at least what the Soviet Armenia’s Supreme Council clarified in 1988, 1989 and 1991. All those acts have characterized the massacres as genocide,” Alaverdyan told a news conference on Wednesday.

To note, the 28th anniversary of Baku massacres will be marked in a few, with the former ombudsperson highlighting the Azerbaijani authorities carried out a pre-planned Armenian depopulation program.

“Did the problem arise in 1987? Of course no. Simply a new phase began at that time with the Armenian people struggling against the physical annihilation. This should act as the very basis for the Artsakh conflict settlement,” she highlighted.