YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that the fact that Armenia is mentioned in the new ceasefire deal brokered by Russia in Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijan, but in the development of which Armenia had no participation and involvement, backs his assessment that one of the goals of the attack against NK was to drag Armenia into military operations.

The ceasefire agreement mentions the "withdrawal of the remaining units of the Armed Forces of Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh", but Armenia doesn’t maintain any military presence in Nagorno-Karabakh since August of 2021.

“Mentioning the name of Republic of Armenia in a text which has basically nothing to do with the Republic of Armenia justifies my hypothesis, approach and assessment made yesterday that one of the goals of the attack against Nagorno-Karabakh is to drag the Republic of Armenia into military actions. Of course, I have one assessment, that if it were possible to drag Armenia into military operations, the deep target of that would have been the independence and sovereignty of Armenia,” Pashinyan said.

Pashinyan said the government of Armenia will continue to monitor the development. What matters now is for the right of the Armenians in NK to live in their homes to be completely ensured by Russia, he said.