ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan assures that the fact of recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is necessary for the Armenian authorities to recognize the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia.
"We actually recognized the territorial integrity of Armenia. And the fact of recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is necessary for the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia to be recognized, because the territorial integrity of Armenia is surrounded by Azerbaijan.
If you do not recognize the territorial integrity of Turkiye, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, you will not recognize the territorial integrity of Armenia, because Armenia is even historically a country that is surrounded by these countries. If you do not recognize their territorial integrity, you do not recognize the existence of your country. We were subjected to this temptation, and it was with this temptation that we destroyed the sovereignty of our country with our own hands. This is not a political, but a socio-psychological issue," Pashinyan said on April 11 in parliament.
Addressing his opponents, the prime minister said: "Let them not think that anyone loves historical Armenia more than us. Nobody loves historical Armenia more than me. But I refuse to love historical Armenia more than real Armenia. I, as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, generally refuse to love anything more than the real Armenia... its people and its interests>.