Armenia PM to meet with Azerbaijan president, without agenda

News.am, Armenia
Feb 28 2019
Armenia PM to meet with Azerbaijan president, without agenda Armenia PM to meet with Azerbaijan president, without agenda

09:47, 28.02.2019

One of our government’s priority tasks is increasing Karabakh’s being a subject in the negotiation process [to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict].

The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, on Wednesday stated the aforesaid at his get-together in Tehran, with representatives of the Iranian Armenian community, according to Tert.am.

“We have to meet with the president of Azerbaijan; it will be a meeting without an agenda, but discussion of the negotiation format will be one of its important benchmarks,” the PM said. “Unless we have reached agreement on the format, the contacts can’t be considered official talks.

“[But] I speak on behalf of Armenia because I’m the prime minister of the Republic of Armenia. I don’t speak on behalf of Artsakh because Artsakh has its own authorities. The Artsakh authorities should speak in the negotiation process on behalf of Artsakh. We must do everything so that Karabakh has a new level of being a subject in the negotiation process.”

Pashinyan added that in case of any threat against Artsakh, the unity of Armenians will be doubled.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS