On March 31, 2026, Armenia rejected Azerbaijan’s latest fabricated claims that so-called “Armenian groups” committed “genocide” against Azerbaijanis in 1918, after Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement repeating the false accusation. The statement was accompanied by a call from Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman, Sabina Aliyeva, urging international organizations and the United Nations to recognize what she termed “ethnic cleansings committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis” as genocide. Responding to the accusations, Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan dismissed the claims and told Armenpress that such statements are rooted in long-standing hostile and unfounded narratives that continue to be used in Azerbaijan, even at the state level. “During the decades-long conflict, a number of hostile...