Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hikmet Hajiyev confirmed the fact that the Azerbaijani authorities demonstrated discrimination against the RF citizens of Armenian origin or those, having Armenian surnames, РИА Новости reports.
The Azerbaijani official did not refuse the demonstration of such a discrimination conditioning it by the fact that those citizens could assumingly "go to provocations in Azerbaijan."
"We resorts to such actions by security reasons and inform the Russian side about it," Hajiyev noted.
To remind, previously, Foreign Ministry of Russia expressed a concern on the issue.