Armenia has agreed to the provision that the parties will not deploy third country forces along the common border after the peace agreement enters into force. This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a conversation with journalists outside the office of the Civil Contract party today, March 13, commenting on the fact that Armenia has actually agreed to withdraw observers completely if the agreement is signed, and not only from the demarcated territories, as the Prime Minister had previously stated.

He also responded to a question about why he changed his previously voiced position.

“We did not change our previously voiced position because we changed our perception as a result of analyzing the text. We had a discussion in the Security Council and we came to the conclusion that the process of exchanging these texts had already exhausted itself and we moved to the next stage by analyzing the text of the peace agreement as a whole. As a result of this analysis, we came to the conclusion that we can consider that this compromise text, formed as a result of four years of negotiations, can be acceptable to Armenia”.