“We strongly condemn the attack of the radical Armenian groups against the participants of a conference themed around “the role of public diplomacy in Turkish foreign policy” jointly hosted by USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Yunus Emre Institute at the University of Southern California,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan said in a statement, Ednews reports.

It was noted that during the nearly 30-year occupation period, including the 44-day Patriotic War, as well as on the eve of the last anti-terrorism measures carried out in the region, such acts launched against our country, our compatriots, as well as the brotherly Republic of Türkiye and its citizens, which are the embodiment of Armenia's ethnic hatred policy and intolerance gaining an intensive and systematic nature is a source of serious threat. Such aggressive attacks by representatives of the radical Armenian diaspora, who cannot bear the failure of the smear campaign of Armenia against Azerbaijan, as well as the fall of the illegal regime created in the region, are a criminal act and should be punished accordingly. In the example of this attack, the behavior of radical Armenian groups containing such elements of racial discrimination, hate speech and violence should be strongly condemned by the wider international community, and appropriate steps should be taken by the relevant state institutions to prevent such actions.