The starting point of these events is October 6, 2022, when the well-known statement was adopted during the quadrilateral meeting where Armenia and Azerbaijan recorded—based on the Almaty Declaration—the principle of recognizing each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted this in his remarks at a security forum Wednesday—and referring to the joint statement of Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Tuesday.

“This was a very important recording, and everything started from that point, because it was from that point that the process was put into such a formula that inevitably, of course, different scenarios could have occurred, and the events of Karabakh in 2023 may not have happened, but that is a different matter, I have spoken about the reasons for that,” Pashinyan added.

“I also want to emphasize the role of the President of the European Union, as well as [French President] Macron, the role of the President of the Council of the European Union at the heart of this process, because after that something very important happened. The EU civilian short-term [monitoring] mission was deployed in Armenia, which later became a long-term mission. I want us to assess this event properly, because it opened up a certain space for the Republic of Armenia to self-reflect and think. We realized that we should not expect the solution to our issues from anyone else,” he said.

“Our recording was that we ourselves must understand our problem and we must make decisions about what we are doing and what path we are taking. In that case, the help and support of the international community will be much more specific and much more objective,” the Armenian premier added, in particular.