Pashinyan Says Armenia Sees No Alternative to Peace with Azerbaijan

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said there is no alternative to signing and ratifying a peace agreement with Azerbaijan. Speaking at a government session in Yerevan, he presented a foreign policy statement and set the goal of making the peace process fully irreversible and designed for centuries ahead.

"I say again: I do not see an alternative to peace," Pashinyan said. He described consolidating peace and turning it into an institutional reality as his first, second and third priorities as prime minister. He stressed the need for the swift signing and subsequent legal ratification of the peace treaty with Baku, linking the step to tectonic shifts in the international security architecture.

Pashinyan argued that the world order is essentially collapsing and that, in this period, Armenia had managed to establish peace. "Our task is to make two years of peace into 20 years, one year into 200 years, 200 years into 400 years and so on," he concluded.