During his address to the nation, Pashinyan hinted at new territorial  concessions to Azerbaijan and called for forgetting Artsakh

ArmInfo. During his address to the nation, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hinted at new upcoming territorial concessions to Azerbaijan and called for forgetting Artsakh.

During his half-hour address, Pashinyan attempted to tell how  wonderful the document he signed in Washington is and how much good  it promises for the Armenian people. He assured that by initialing  the peace treaty with Azerbaijan on August 8 in Washington, Armenia  had established peace in the South Caucasus. According to him, this  marks a completely new era for South Caucasus, and the Armenian  people, who have never known what peace means, will now be able to  personally enjoy it. Pashinyan  then proceeded to outline the already  published points of this document and address issues raised in   Armenian society, such as the return of Armenia's sovereign  territories  occupied by the enemy in 2021-2023.  Speaking about the  return of over 200 square kilometers of occupied sovereign Armenian  territories, Pashinyan equated the fact of their return to Armenia  with the transfer of the so-called Azerbaijani enclaves to Baku, but  did not say a word about the Armenian territories occupied by the  Azerbaijani side in the early 1990s.

"This reality must be resolved in the demarcation process. But the  peace logic, the new logic, is that when we talk about the sovereign  territories of the Republic of Armenia under the control of  Azerbaijan, we must also say that there are sovereign territories of  Azerbaijan under our control, and this mutual issue must be resolved  through the demarcation process," Pashinyan said. He then tried to  justify the fact that the document does not mention the Armenian  prisoners of war held in Baku, assuring that it is not there because  they seek to free these people before the peace treaty is signed.

Then the Armenian Prime Minister touched upon the Nagorno-Karabakh  conflict and stated that he had previously stated from the rostrum of  parliament that Armenia should not continue the Karabakh movement,  and he would conduct a policy based on this logic, and those who  disagree with this should make a revolution. "The people, that is,  you, dear citizens, did not make a revolution because you, like me,  understood that peace is impossible without closing the Karabakh  issue, that the Karabakh issue was in fact simply used by certain  forces as a tool to prevent Armenia from gaining independence,  sovereignty, and the formation and development of statehood,"  Pashinyan said.

The head of the Armenian government also called the idea of the  return of Artsakh refugees to Nagorno- Karabakh unrealistic. "In  general, I consider the bilateral discussion of the issue of the  return of people who have become refugees since the beginning of the  conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan to be a dangerous factor that  harms the peace that has been established between Armenia and  Azerbaijan. Bilateral attempts to  discuss these issues will not  benefit the refugees themselves, but will become a new source of  tension between the states. I have also shared this idea of mine with  official Baku. And I would like to note that yes, this is a dangerous  and harmful issue for the nascent peace. In my opinion, all those who  do not agree with this strategy, willy-nilly, find themselves in the  logic of resuming the conflict. Our vision for the future of our  compatriots forced to leave Karabakh is as follows: with our support  and that of the international community, they should be resettled in  the Republic of Armenia, and live, create and establish themselves  here as full-fledged citizens of  the Republic Armenia," Pashinyan  said.