Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has issued a stark warning, suggesting that Armenia could find itself in conflict with Azerbaijan if it fails to reach a compromise regarding the return of strategic Azerbaijani territories currently under Armenian control since the early 1990s.
Pashinyan made these remarks during a meeting with residents of border areas in northern Armenia’s Tavush region, situated close to a series of abandoned Azerbaijani villages long controlled by Yerevan since the initial stages of the countries’ three-decade-long conflict in the early 1990s.
According to TASS, Pashinyan, in a video circulated by his government, stated, “Now we can leave here, let’s go and tell [Azerbaijan] that no, we are not going to do anything. This means at the end of the week a war will begin.”
The Armenian Prime Minister has been indicating his willingness in recent weeks to return the villages to Azerbaijan, despite their significance to Yerevan as they control its main highway northwards to the border with Georgia.
Azerbaijan has consistently maintained that the return of its territories is a crucial precondition for a peace agreement to end the three-decade conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan retook in September.
Eager to signal a peace treaty
The 2 sides have stated they wish to signal a proper peace treaty, however talks have change into slowed down in points together with demarcation of the international locations’ 1000km (620 mile) border, which is closed and closely militarized.
Each Armenia and Azerbaijan proceed to occupy lands which can be internationally acknowledged as a part of the opposite’s territory.
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