Pashinyan warns of Azerbaijan’s intentions to commit new military provocations,calls on UNSC members to prevent outbreak

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan continues to keep Lachin Corridor under blockade and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh has reached its culmination, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Thursday.

“It is obvious that with these actions, Azerbaijan is showing its intention to commit a new military provocation against Nagorno-Karabakh and the Republic of Armenia. Fake and untrue narratives are being circulated in an attempt to justify such a provocation,” Pashinyan warned at the Cabinet meeting.

The Armenian Prime Minister said the situation requires the international community, UN Security Council members to take serious measures to prevent a new outbreak in South Caucasus.

“At the same time, I underscore the commitment of the Republic of Armenia to the agreements reached on 14 December 2021 in Brussels, 6 October 2022 in Prague and in 2023 in Brussels, as well as the 9 November 2020 trilateral statement signed by the President of Russia, the President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia. Baku-Stepanakert dialogue within the framework of international mechanisms for addressing the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the unblocking of the Lachin Corridor in line with the 22 February and 6 July 2023 rulings of the International Court of Justice is significant. Based on all of this the Republic of Armenia is ready and willing to sign a treaty on peace and normalization of relations with Azerbaijan, and we express our commitment to the peace agenda,” PM Pashinyan said.