Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan posted the following on his Facebook page:

“The principle of remedial secession, which is a modern manifestation of the principle of the self-determination of nations, which entitles certain groups and nations to secede from a state when there is a risk of discrimination, large-scale violations of human rights or genocide and rules out unification with a state, if unification will lead to the same consequences.

This must especially lie at the core of the Armenians’ concept paper on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the involvement of terrorist mercenaries in the current war and the terrorism of Turkey and Azerbaijan provide a real opportunity to achieve such international understanding.

The potential of all Armenians needs to be focused on the solution to this problem.”