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On March 2, at the initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh Republic), the statement by country's National Assembly on the 30th anniversary of the massacre of the Armenian population of the town of Sumgait was disseminated as an official document in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

To remind, this year, the 30th anniversary of Sumgait and the 27th anniversary of the Baku pogroms of the Armenians have been commemorated. On 26-29 February 1988 in terms of actual complicity of local authorities and inaction of the USSR government mass pogroms of civilians were organized in Sumgait city of Azerbaijani SSR, accompanied with unprecedented brutal murders, violence and pillaging against the Armenian population of the city. According to official data, 27 Armenians were killed; however, there is ample evidence that several hundred Armenians have been killed in the city in three days.