Wednesday, February 27 2019 13:59

ArmInfo.President of the Armenian parliament, Ararat Mirzoyan, while in Moscow on a working visit, noted with regret the participation of some of his Russian  counterparts in the anti-Armenian actions held yesterday in the  capital of Azerbaijan.

Speaking at a plenary meeting of the Federation Council of the  Russian Federation, Mirzoyan, in particular, said: "Dear friends, I  have to state with regret that, despite the high level and allied  cooperation between our countries, as well as the consistent efforts  of the Russian side, of the Karabakh conflict, some of our Russian  counterparts just yesterday became participants in a pronounced  anti-Armenian rally held in Baku and aimed at undermining sustainable  peace and stability in the region>.

Moreover, he stressed, the participation of the members of the  Russian-Armenian inter-parliamentary commission in the event is just  bewildering. All this, according to Mirzoyan, is becoming even more  relevant, especially these days, when Armenians around the world  commemorate the victims of the ominous Sumgait pogroms that took  place more than thirty years ago and became the forerunner of pogroms  against Armenians, initiating a policy of full-scale ethnic  cleansing. This led to a mass exodus of the Armenian population from  Baku, Sumgayit, Kirovabad and other cities of Azerbaijan, the head of  the Armenian parliament stressed.