Pashinyan about Karabakh problem: We must find reasons that do not  allow us to be understandable to each other

ArmInfo.The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict continues to be the most important challenge for the Republic of Armenia and in general for the entire region. Speaking at  the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of  Europe, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this.

At the same time, he stressed that the democratic changes that  occurred in Armenia introduced new shades to the views of the  Armenian side on the settlement of the issue.

"Of course, it is very important that we were able to start a rather  constructive and positive dialogue with Azerbaijani President Ilham  Aliyev, but I am sure that only the dialogue between the leaders is  not enough to resolve the issue. At a press conference in Yerevan, I  stated that the most important platform for such a dialogue could be  social networks, on which Armenians and Azerbaijanis, unfortunately,  so far communicate in term of swearing and hatred, "Pashinyan said,  noting that for thirty years the parties had to exhaust the words of  hatred and curses, but this did not happen. "However, we must find  reasons that do not allow us to be clear to each other," the prime  minister said.

He stressed that he personally tried to become prime minister for  tolerance between the parties: "I myself, several times from the  rostrum of the Armenian parliament, said that any solution to the  Karabakh issue should be acceptable to the peoples of Armenia,  Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, we still do not hear  such words from Azerbaijan. But I hope that the appeal from this  rostrum on the world will receive an adequate response from the  Azerbaijani society. "

He stressed that PACE is the place where swearing should be replaced  by dialogue, provocation by constructive work. <Meanwhile,  discussions on the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh, which took place in  PACE in January 2016, became a prelude to the four-day war that broke  out in April of the same year, and created favorable conditions for  the beginning of offensive actions by the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan.  I don't want to say with confidence that deliberately, but  nevertheless, the authors of these discussions and documents became  devotees of the war, which cost several hundred lives both for  Armenia and Nagorno- Karabakh, and for Azerbaijan, "Pashinyan  stressed.

He noted that today, unfortunately, both in PACE and on other  international platforms, attempts are being made to involve these  structures in geopolitical games, conflicts, and turn them towards  conflict, which absolutely contradicts the essence and mission of  these organizations.  He also expressed himself for a differentiated  approach to conflicts. "That is why we believe that each conflict  should be dealt with by a specialized structure, in the case of the  Karabakh conflict, the OSCE Minsk Group, since only the Minsk  mediators have control of not only the current situation, but also  the entire history, the subtleties of the negotiations from the day  they started", Pashinyan stressed , adding that the format of the  OSCE Minsk Group was founded to form a platform for dialogue of all  parties to the conflict - Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan and Armenia.  "Therefore, today we are taking measures so that the OSCE Minsk  Group, in the format of the co-chairmanship, resumed the dialogue  between Nagorno- Karabakh and Azerbaijan," he explained.