I am sure you are familiar with the March 28, 2022 statement of the Security Council. That statement by the enlarged Security Council stressed that Azerbaijan intends to launch new provocations and attack in the direction of Nagorno-Karabakh [(Artsakh)]. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting of the government of Armenia.

"We had registered that there is a high probability of such developments on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as well. This statement naturally has raised additional questions, and I would like to make a number of clarifications and justifications so that the situation confirmed in the region can be clearer for both the Armenian and the international community.

As before, during and after the 44-day war in 2020, Azerbaijan pursues a policy of substantiating the speech justifying the military attack on Armenia and Karabakh. It first throws theories, proposals or comments on the diplomatic or public platform, then accuses Armenia of not responding to them or reacting in a destructive way or rejecting them, then attributes some promises, weaves some arrangements to Armenia.

Then in the context of that speech, it attributes to Armenia a practice of destructiveness, denial, failure to fulfill promises, non-fulfillment of agreements. It builds aggressive rhetoric on this accusation, which is followed by aggressive actions which are already justified by the above-described speech and resolutions," Pashinyan said.

According to him, this practice, which has been repeated many times, continues even now, and it is obvious that Azerbaijan is attempting to form legitimacy for a large-scale attack on Artsakh and Armenia.

"The purpose of my address today is to show that this speech is baseless and illegitimate," the Armenian PM emphasized.