We should be able to look at ourselves, understand also the perception of others about us, what message are we giving to the region and the international community. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this in an interview with Turkish media.
"If we give the region and the international community a message that wait, we will become stronger and you will see what territorial and other changes we will bring to the region, naturally everyone, or at least some of them, will perceive us as a threat. And if we hear such statements from our neighbors, we will also perceive it as a threat, something that has happened. Let's not hide it, the average statistical perception in the Republic of Armenia is that Turkey is a threat to the security of Armenia. And I suppose that sometimes the vocabulary, even the political vocabulary, that is used in the Republic of Armenia, not necessarily at the official level, but sometimes also at the official level, can be perceived as a threat for Turkey.
What I am saying is that it may turn out that we have already lost the causal relationship, we have already lost that point of which is the cause, which is the effect. Because of losing that point and because of these perceptions, we have gone through many complications and cataclysms. But now there is an opportunity to change the perception and the answer, the formulation of this issue. The opportunity arose from the fact that Armenia and Turkey exchanged messages that there is a desire on both sides of Armenia and Turkey to change the formulations of these issues, to change those emphases, to change the perspectives.
And this is why, including the press and experts, sometimes say that there is a historical opportunity. And returning to your question again, I would greatly like to use that historical opportunity myself, as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia," - he said.











