Pashinyan called the transfer of Karabakh to Azerbaijan inevitable

The end of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the transfer of territories to Azerbaijan were inevitable. This was stated by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan. According to him, the current government inherited the negotiating situation in which Yerevan found itself in 2016 (then the head of state was President Serzh Sargsyan). This position allowed movement in only one direction - towards the transfer of territories and the dissolution of the unrecognized republic.

“Essentially, we followed this logic, and our guilt and biggest mistake is that we started talking to our people on these topics after the 44-day war in 2020. On the other hand, we were faced with the psychological and emotional impossibility of that conversation; I could not talk to myself about this, which I am guilty of,” Pashinyan shared.

On September 20, 2023, Azerbaijan launched a military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Soon the authorities of the unrecognized republic capitulated. Yerevan's non-intervention sparked protests in Armenia. Baku began to reintegrate the region into its structure, against the backdrop of which there was a mass exodus of Karabakh Armenians to Armenia.

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