I see headlines saying the Karabakh issue is not resolved, some discussion is taking place somewhere in Armenia, now Azerbaijanis are also seeing this. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this during a press briefing with Armenian reporters in Hamburg, Germany.

“This issue must be resolved bilaterally, and we must give our peoples a chance to live in peace. What does it mean to say that ‘the Karabakh issue is not resolved?’ Those people tell me: ‘You sent 7,000 young people to their deaths.’ Well, if the Karabakh issue is not resolved, what are you proposing? Continuing the Karabakh issue means a new war [with Azerbaijan], new casualties, new hardships, a new blockade, and so on, with all its unpredictable consequences,” Pashinyan added, in particular.

“Those who say the Karabakh issue is not resolved are saying that Armenia must wage a new war. When they say there are forces in Armenia who say Armenia must wage a new war, Azerbaijan says: ‘Then we must increase the military budget, then we must adopt the ‘Western Azerbaijan’ narrative. That is, is there a need to explain in such detail? I used to avoid such explanations, even though there is a need to speak clearly, transparently about everything so that people understand what the matter is about,” stated.

“Those who say the Karabakh issue is not resolved are saying that a new war is needed. Moreover, they are not predicting [it] — they are saying a new war is needed. And on the other hand, they  say: ‘He [i.e. Pashinyan] gave Karabakh [to Azerbaijan], there were casualties.’ What does this express? That we were so devoted to that idea that we went to all lengths for Karabakh, but along the way our eyes were opened, we realized many things we did not understand before,” he added.

“In the end, we must realize: well, what is it that we [i.e. Armenians] are not doing right, that we keep going through tragedies, struggles, massacres, genocides? Now, we, yes, we have gained the chance to change our destiny at the cost of the lives of our martyrs,” he said.

“Peace [with Azerbaijan] is established, the Karabakh issue is resolved also, all issues are resolved also, the Azerbaijan issue is resolved also, the Armenia issue is resolved also, the regional issue is resolved also, the issue of [regional] transport routes is resolved also, the issue of delimitation of [Armenian-Azerbaijani] borders is resolved also. What remains is to stay within these solutions, to avoid giving in to those provocations, and not to adopt provocative discourse,” the Armenian premier concluded.