The occurrence in Sumgait created a gap between the past and the future for the Armenians of Azerbaijan, Gregory Ayvazyan , head of "Assembly of Azerbaijani-Armenians" told a news conference in Yerevan. According to him, those events showed that the Armenians and the Azeris will not be able to live peacefully within one state

"Karabakh movement of 1988 was not only a struggle for independence and freedom, but the struggle between life and death," Ayvazyan said.

"We keep quiet about what really happened, while Azerbaijan promotes their lies all over the world, distorting the historical facts and representing themselves as victims," he said, emphasizing that the events in Sumgait were the Genocide of Armenian civil population planned at the state.