Why is Baky spreading disinformation  and is  new escalation  possible? - Pashinyan`s response

ArmInfo. If there were no trust issue, then there would be two options.  Either the peace treaty would have long ago been signed or there would be no need for a peace  treaty.  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made this statement  in an interview with Public Television, commenting on  Azerbaijani  President Ilham Aliyev's remarks that "there is zero trust in  Armenia," as well as the ongoing spread of  fake information by Baku  in recent days. According to him, trust issues are among the reasons  why in the agreed text of the peace treaty  includes a provision  for  confidence-building measures among other provisions.

"The problem is that the parties have their own ideas about what  statements they should be guided by. And our idea is that the peace  agenda should be promoted and implemented, which means facing all the  challenges and trying to solve and address these challenges. And in  this regard, of course, a very important event has occurred: the  negotiations on the text of the peace treaty between Armenia and  Azerbaijan has ended with  agreement on the text of the peace  treaty," he said. That is, according to the Prime Minister, there is  a document that is acceptable to both the Republic of Armenia and the  Republic of Azerbaijan, and therefore the next step, logically,  should be the signing of that document.

"As for dissemination of news with the escalation logic, I think  one  of its goals is to disguise the real news under the flow of such  news. And the real news is that the text of the peace treaty has been  agreed upon and is awaiting signing, and therefore it must be  signed," he said, adding that, as he had stated earlier, he is ready  to put his signature under that text. As for  escalation,  the Prime  Minister stated that there is no basis or justification for  escalation, because Armenia and Azerbaijan have recognized each  other's territorial integrity, sovereignty and political  independence, essentially the borders of the Soviet republics.

 "And I have to note  that this is a reference not only to the agreed  text of the peace treaty, but also  a document that now has de-jure  legal force in both countries, namely,  the provisions of the border  demarcation commissions of the two countries, where the Alma-Ata  Declaration, in which  the principles mentioned by me are contained,  these principles in the form of the Alma-Ata Declaration have become  the basic principle for border demarcation  between Armenia and  Azerbaijan. There may be forces that are in favor of escalation,  there may be forces that are opposed to escalation, but escalation  needs to have a justification. There is no justification for  escalation in our region. Therefore, the next step in this direction  should be the signing of the peace treaty and its implementation,"  the head of the Armenian Cabinet emphasized.