Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan presented in the National Assembly the demands Azerbaijan presented at the last meeting in Brussels, saying that it will not sign a peace treaty, it does not accept the proposals of the Armenian side, and it wants everything from Narnadzor to Yerevan. Pashinyan also said that Azerbaijan wants a corridor through the territory of Armenia, which the Armenian side is against. In addition, after the 44-day war of 2020, Azerbaijan has stated several times that if it sees that the armed forces and the army of the Republic of Armenia are gathering a certain potential, which, according to its wording, may threaten Azerbaijan, they will carry out pre-offensive actions. ”
Although we have stated several times, recorded in official documents, that we are carrying out the reform of the armed forces not to conquer territories, but to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia, nevertheless, at the stages when we focus on the topic of army reforms, such provocations are carried out and they also do it to hinder the process.” Pashinyan also informed that after the war we suffered heavy losses, but Armenia was not broken. ”
As a result of that war, moreover, November 9 was presented in a very negative light in the atmosphere and social-psychological environment known at that time. It’s not that we were happy, or are happy with that announcement. But there is an important 3+1 institutional protocol in that statement. The first is the registration of the Nagorno-Karabakh subject in the conditions when Azerbaijan says that Nagorno-Karabakh does not exist. We have an active document, in which there is also the signature of Azerbaijan, where it is said that there is Nagorno Karabakh, that NK unit is enclosed by a certain line, which is fixed in the document as a line of contact, there are deployed Russian peacekeepers, the meaning and logic of their presence in that line of contact.
Therefore, it is to ensure the safety of the area and therefore the people living in the area, and there is the Lachin Corridor, which ensures the unhindered movement of people, cargo, and communication between NK and Armenia.”
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Pashinyan also mentioned that Azerbaijan reacted badly when the Secretary of the Security Council visited Karabakh, as well as MPs. “The tripartite declaration clearly states that the meaning of the Lachin Corridor is to ensure the connection between Karabakh and Armenia, and Azerbaijan’s similar positions are not logical at all, because as we speak, in that declaration there is no limit on who can go to Nagorno-Karabakh and who cannot. In recent actions, it is noticeable that Azerbaijan is trying to remove from circulation and give archival importance to the tripartite statement of November 9.”
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