Speaking on April 13 in the National Assembly during the discussion of the Government's 2021 Action Plan, Pashinyan stated: “I could not convince myself because I understood that Robert Kocharyan was not exaggerating at all when he announced that Armenia also has a problem of territorial integrity.”
‘Azatutyun’ sent a request to the Prime Minister's Office, asking to clarify what the head of the Government meant.
“The Prime Minister meant that in the early 1990s, during the first Karabakh war, the Republic of Armenia had territorial losses. Besides, in 2021, the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia was violated due to the invasion of the Sotk-Khoznavar section of the sovereign territory of Armenia,” the response of the Prime Minister's Office reads.
The radio station also asked to clarify, speaking about the territorial integrity of Armenia, whether the Prime Minister meant the issue of the Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan during the Soviet years.
“Yes, considering the Artsvashen enclave, the fact that several tens of kilometers of Armenian territory from the Tavush province, as well as thousands of hectares of arable land are under the control of Azerbaijan,” the answer reads.
