Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh will have all the rights of citizens of Azerbaijan - Foreign Ministry
Baku/05.10.20/Turan: The peaceful population of Nagorno-Karabakh are full-right citizens of Azerbaijan. "The attitude towards them will be the same as all other national minorities in the country," Leyla Abdullayeva, an official representative of this department, said at today's briefing at the Foreign Ministry.
She noted that thousands of ethnic Armenians have been quietly living in Azerbaijan all these years.
In turn, the head of the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan, Gunay Selimzade, said that there are no problems for Armenians to live in Azerbaijan.
“All their rights will be ensured, both within the framework of international humanitarian law and within the country's legislation,” she said. -03-
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