Karabakh movement will not continue in Armenia: Pashinyan responds to  3rd President

ArmInfo. The Karabakh movement will not continue in Armenia, as stated by Armenian Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan in a conversation with reporters on April 16, while commenting on  reporter's question regarding the statements by the opposition and the third President Serzh Sargsyan that the Karabakh page is not closed, and it should be returned to the political agenda.  

<I have responded to these statements even before they were  made, and I have said that the Karabakh movement will not continue in  Armenia,> Pashinyan added. He also commented on Serzh Sargsyan's  statement that power in the republic had been seized. <Let Serzh  Sargsyan see  what he was saying at that time,> concluded the head of  the Government.

Touching upon the delimitation process and concerns that it may not  reach the areas occupied by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Pashinyan  said that he did not agree that the process had reached a dead end.  He assured that the Armenian authorities would continue to move  forward  consistently in this direction.

<We have submitted written proposals to Azerbaijan regarding the  logic and specific direction of continuing the process. We are now  waiting for their response,> he noted. The proposals concern both the  logic of delimitation and the specific areas where it is proposed to  continue the work. According to the preliminary agreement, the  parties plan to move from north to south - from the point of contact  of the borders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia towards the Iranian  border. The Armenian side has indicated at which section the next  stage could begin. Armenia also has not receive a response from  Azerbaijan to the initiative to unblock communications. The Prime  Minister added that any project has certain nuances and subtleties  during implementation, and they need to be worked on.

<Within the framework of the <Crossroads of Peace> project, we have  recorded that we are ready to simplify the procedures while  maintaining 4 primary principles: territorial integrity, sovereignty,  jurisdiction, reciprocity. Now, at this stage, we propose opening a  railway connection, in particular, along the Horadiz-Yeraskh line,  and carrying out cargo transportation from Azerbaijan to Azerbaijan  through the territory of Armenia, and from Armenia to Armenia through  the territory of Azerbaijan>, Pashinyan said. 

He noted that Baku accuses Yerevan of not offering solutions, which  is why they are ready to use the Iranian route. <This means that the  Iranian route and conditions are acceptable to them. To make  everything clear in this context, we say that we are ready to provide  the same conditions under which Azerbaijan passes through the  territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the event of passing  through the territory of the Republic of Armenia. Thus, we  demonstrate that the idea that the conditions we propose may be  unacceptable for Azerbaijan does not correspond to reality. If the  same condition is acceptable for transit through the territory of  Iran, why should it be unacceptable for transit through the territory  of Armenia?> the Prime Minister asked. According to him, he does not  know what Baku's statements about the need for <unimpeded passage>  mean. <And I don't know what they mean by this. We are talking about  our principles, and within the framework of these principles, we are  willing to simplify certain procedures (transit procedures),>  Nikol  Pashinyan pointed out.