What assessment will the Prime Minister of Armenia give to the strategy around Armenia? Nikol Pashinyan, while answering a question during the Government-Parliament question-and-answer session, stated that the events that took place have a direct impact on the strategic situation of our region.
“Security stabilization systems in our region have been deformed, are deformed and are being deformed, which means that we are facing additional security challenges. In other words, the system that was originally supposed to ensure security and stability in our region is clearly not working with sufficient efficiency,” said the Prime Minister and added that it is a strategic issue to manage the challenges caused by the deformation or to smooth out the unevenness caused by the deformation.
He also noted that there may be a hypothesis or proposal that new components should be added to that overall security architecture, but it is not a fact that strategic security will be ensured by this.
“Who can ensure the security of Armenia? The answer is unequivocal - comprehensive peace can ensure the security. This is very important because we must state that the question of who can secure is itself wrong, because if the one ‘who’ ensures security is someone, it means that the security threat is big and that security threat, if even managed, is managed temporarily. From a deep strategic point of view, peace can provide security,” said the Prime Minister.
The head of the government also addressed the question of whether peace is realistic.
“Yes, of course, peace is possible, but it should also be possible to record in more detail how peace is possible. The problem is that there are two components here. One, the political will to achieve peace, and the second, the details of the parameters for achieving peace.
We have the will to achieve peace. The problem is as follows: to what extent we will succeed in forming such parameters of peace as a result of the negotiation process, which can be acceptable for Armenia or the people of Armenia. Because, yes, there is an option for peace to be realistically possible with the parameters which are in principle acceptable for Armenia and Armenia’s people. There can be parameters that peace is realistically possible in the parameters that are not in principle acceptable for Armenia and Armenia’s people,” said the Prime Minister and added that it is the Government's task to be able to balance the realism and the emotional background related to the issue and bring them together as much as possible.
