‘We hope the peace established between Armenia and Azerbaijan will put an end to fabricated narratives’: Armenia’s foreign ministry responds to Baku

Ani Badalyan, spokeswoman for the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has responded to a March 31 statement by Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry containing false allegations that “in 1918, Armenian groups committed genocide against Azerbaijanis,” Armenpress reports.

“Over the decades of conflict, a number of hostile and unreliable narratives have taken shape which, regrettably, continue to be deployed at the state level in Azerbaijan. We hope that the peace established between Armenia and Azerbaijan will serve not only to bring about stable peaceful coexistence and good-neighborly relations between the two states and societies, but also to put an end to fabricated narratives and to exclude the incitement of hatred. We would recall that the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan also reached an agreement on this matter in Washington, where point 5 of the declaration signed on August 8, 2025, clearly speaks to the possibility of closing the page of enmity between the two peoples and beginning good-neighborly relations between them following a conflict that has caused untold human suffering,” Badalyan said.