The likelihood of a new Azerbaijani attack against Armenia and Artsakh is very high, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated at a press conference.
“We must look at Azerbaijan’s continuing aggressive (offensive) rhetoric and policy, which has been constantly increasing. It increased before and after the 2020 war. I think that now the likelihood of escalation is very high both along Armenia’s border and in Mountainous Karabakh,” Pashinyan declared.
He reached this conclusion based on Azerbaijan’s “increasingly aggressive rhetoric” as well as “other data.” He noted that it is not Armenia that initiates escalation and offensive actions.
“That is the reason Armenia decided to invite European Union observers. Before that, Azerbaijan explained any escalation by Armenia’s actions,” Pashinyan said, informing that last October in Prague there was a preliminary agreement regarding the deployment of European Union observers on both sides of the border.
“Moreover, the President of Azerbaijan agreed in the presence of the President of France and the President of the European Council, and later renounced that option,” Nikol Pashinyan stated.
Reiterating that the likelihood of new tension is high, Pashinyan stressed that “it would be very opportune for an international fact-finding mission to be sent to the Lachin corridor and Mountainous Karabakh.”
