Closed hearings on the issue of border delimitation with Azerbaijan were held in the Armenian parliament. Speaker Alen Simonyan did not rule out the possibility of refusing to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.
As Kommersant notes, such public statements with a toughening of Yerevan’s position began after the US-EU-Armenia trilateral meeting held on April 5 in Brussels. According to the publication, the Armenian leadership “decided to step away from the negotiation track” because at this meeting they received some security guarantees that were not publicly announced.
The day before, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced the strategic impossibility of returning to “historical Armenia.” “We must fix the strategic impossibility of returning to the idea of historical Armenia... Now there is a choice between historical and real Armenia,” Pashinyan emphasized during a speech in parliament.
