Pashinyan: Attempts to bring perpetrators of war crimes on Armenian  territory to justice are a path to a new war

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan believes that attempts to bring perpetrators of war crimes on Armenian sovereign territory to justice are a path to a new war.

Pashinyan expressed this stance on April 23 in a  conversation with journalists following a government meeting in  response to a question about whether Armenia would seek to prosecute,  including the top leadership of Azerbaijan, for war crimes committed  on Armenian sovereign territory.

According to Pashinyan, the tip of the trident is sharp, and he does  not want to look the Armenian people in the eye and lie. "There are  narratives and there are facts, but we must understand what we're  talking about.  And this is a trap we can't escape. I believe this is  a trap we must escape. We must free our future generations from this  burden. As much as we accuse, we are accused in return. We must  understand what we're doing, and this is a strategic deal," Pashinyan  stated.

He noted that the issue at hand is conflict, and continuing down this  road means entering a path where conflict and war are inevitable.  "This is the path to the resurgence of conflict," he assured.

Pashinyan also admitted that he does not intend to raise the issue of  the destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in the occupied  territories of Artsakh in international forums. "We must be cautious  in these matters, because the trident is sharp. I don't think we, at  the state level, will make this issue a subject of discussion on  international platforms. And this is a situation that we must fully  understand," Pashinyan concluded.  .