During the government sitting, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that the work is underway in the direction of sending an international fact-finding mission to the Lachin Corridor and Nagorno-Karabakh.
"I think the fact-finding mission is also important to address Azerbaijan's baseless claims that Armenia has an army in Nagorno-Karabakh and that military cargo are carried out from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh", Pashinyan said.
According to the Prime Minister, Azerbaijan is trying to make them a new pretext for military escalation in the region.
"Therefore, sending the international fact-finding mission to the Nagorno-Karabakh and Lachin Corridor also becomes necessary in this regard.
A discussion on this topic also took place on December 6 in Prague during the meeting of the President of France, the President of the European Council , the President of Azerbaijan and me. The president of Azerbaijan claimed that Armenia has an army in Nagorno-Karabakh, I claimed that it does not, he claimed that it does. I proposed to send an international fact-finding mission to NK to clarify the issue. The president of Azerbaijan refused", said Pashinyan.
The Armenia's Prime Minister mentioned that there is a Defense Army in Nagorno-Karabakh, and as long as the threat of ethnic cleansing and genocide hangs over the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, the existence of that army is justified.
"But the Defense Army is not the only mechanism for preventing the genocide of the Nagorno-Karabakh people. The Russian peacekeeping force in Nagorno-Karabakh is also such a mechanism", he said.
