Azerbaijanis do live in Armenia and their number is rather big, Hranush Kharatyan, head of the department on national minorities and religion at the RA government. She said she knows the exact number of Azeris living in Armenia but refused to make it public noting that, according to the UN Convention, she has no right to make public information on the number of a national community that can be in jeopardy. Meanwhile Ms. Kharatyan remarked that Azeris live both in Yerevan and regions. "Some of them do not conceal their nationality," said she adding that many of them arrived in Armenia with their Armenian husbands. At that Ms Kharatyan informed that Azeris in Armenia have not expressed wish to form a community, reports IA Regnum.

Last week Tahir Taghizade, the head of the department of information policy and press Azerbaijani, said Armenia cannot "boast presence of one Azeri on its territory."