Pashinyan: Azerbaijan preparing large-scale aggression against Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan is preparing a large-scale aggression against Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a meeting with the members of the German Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

Pashinyan told German lawmaers that Armenia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement in Prague that the border delimitation process between the two countries will be based on the declaration of Alma Ata.

“The surprise was that after that the president of Azerbaijan announced that the delimitation should be based on historical maps. You know, it's very difficult to explain what that means. Maybe the new initiative of the president of Azerbaijan can clarify this situation, because recently we witnessed the presentation of the so-called "Western Azerbaijan" initiative, and the whole idea of this initiative is that the entire territory of the Republic of Armenia belongs to Azerbaijan, and the capital of Armenia is an Azerbaijani city,” he said.

Our assessment is that all this, the blocking of the Lachin Corridor, the so-called "Western Azerbaijan" initiative, is a preparation for a large-scale aggression against Armenia.

Since December 12, the sole road connecting Nagorno Karabakh to Armenia - the Lachin Corridor - has been blocked by self-described Azerbaijani environmentalists. Karabakh residents have reported food and fuel shortages, while hospital patients don't have access to essential medicines, with only a handful allowed transfer to facilities in Armenia proper.