The biggest factor provoking the war was that the enemy saw that Armenia became a qualitatively different state. The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated answering the questions of the deputies in the Parliament.
“It was not only us who saw the 2019, they have also seen what happened in 2019 in Armenia. The biggest trigger of the war was the deep, substantive-systemic changes taking place in Armenia. Armenia had the highest economic growth in the European region in 2019.
If they saw that Armenia’s decline was continuing, they would still wait, they would not go to war, because the longer the decline continued, the easier it would be, on the contrary, they had to strike at the moment of the flight so that the country would not have the opportunity to resist.
They say you said Artsakh is Armenia, yes, you said Artsakh is Azerbaijan, and we said Artsakh is Armenia. You said that Artsakh is Azerbaijan, it does not need to participate in the negotiation, you have drawn a border, you have adopted a law that Artsakh is Azerbaijan,” said the Prime Minister.
