We shall live in this region; but the biggest problem in this region is that we are perceived as an enemy and we perceive as an enemy. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday said this during a meeting with the residents of Nerkin Bazmaberd village in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

"We have to record that this closed chain must be managed in some way because this is the biggest challenge that we and others have.

Next, we need to record that the [Nagorno-]Karabakh [(Artsakh)] issue is not resolved, no matter how much the Azerbaijani leadership says it is resolved. There will be many questions about why our boys died [in the recent Artsakh]. Our boys died so that when the president of Azerbaijan states today that the Karabakh issue is resolved, we will be able to say that it is not resolved because Azerbaijan's plan was that there should be no Armenians physically left in Karabakh. But today Artsakh exists, there are Artsakh Armenians; this is thanks to our fallen soldiers, the army," he added.

According to Pashinyan, the way to move forward is to unblock the regional communications. "There will be many speculations in this issue, but the opening of communications shall be a step towards the solution of the age-old issue I mentioned.

People gather, shout,' Nikol, traitor!' Can anyone explain in what that betrayal is? Is it in that we [the incumbent Armenian authorities] have not looted [like the previous authorities] (…)? For 20 years, when the people were talking about looting, they [the previous authorities] were saying that, 'We are maintaining an army, we are maintaining a front line.' Then in [April] 2016 it turned out that we are fighting with the weapons of the [19]80s, and today they tell us, 'Why didn't you do this, do that during these two years?' (…). Yes, we are guilty of not resolving in two years the issues that you have not resolved in 20 years, and let the people punish us—as they see fit—for that sin," Nikol Pashinyan said.