Let's Understand What Action Should Have Given Us the Opportunity to Avoid War: Pashinyan

Our speeches and goals often have little connection to reality or the connection is weak, and this leads to crises. This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a press conference today, January 10.

“Our task is to try to have a new perspective on reality, and to examine and reflect on our perceptions from that perspective, and how real they are. Let’s understand, if we made a mistake, why we made that mistake, and how we made that mistake. Very often people say that the blame for the war is mine. Very well, let’s understand what was the action that should have given us the opportunity to avoid war,” he stated.

This means that the correct formulation is that those regions should have been handed over and the uncertainty of the Nagorno-Karabakh status should have been accepted by Armenia, recognizing it as part of Azerbaijan, and allowing the Azerbaijanis who left Nagorno-Karabakh to return and governing the region.

“In hindsight, one can say yes, perhaps that would have been better than what we have today. But at that time, who would have convinced whom that this is the road we should take? This is in the context that we knew we had a strong army, we had reliable allies, when official reports were laid on the table that we are capable of acting without taking any steps back, and so on.”

I do not want to divert any blame by saying this; all of this exists, it has happened. I am saying let’s look deeper. We don’t even reach the level of X-ray to fully understand the issue. This is a problem at the DNA level,” said the Prime Minister.

He declared that our model of patriotism is a Soviet model, which has serious contradictions with the statehood of Armenia: “If we do not come from those levels, we will not solve the puzzles,” he added.