Pashinyan confirmed our information. Is it a verbal agreement with Aliyev?

On February 4, with the article “Will Pashinyan show the new weapons to keep the power?” in the article we wrote that at some point, Nikol Pashinyan may not consider the reaction of individual groups to be sufficient after getting acquainted with the new weapons, and organize a public demonstration in the period close to the elections. After all, one must somehow try to prove that the external debt has grown justifiably. We had clearly stated reliable information by writing.

“By the way, just these days 168.am received information, according to which it is not excluded that on May 28, Nikol Pashinyan will organize a military parade of the newly purchased weapons. Information about a possible location has also been provided, but due to security reasons, we will not speak. Regarding this topic, we tried to get an explanation from the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, but it was not possible to contact the officials, so we sent a written request, we will present it as soon as we receive the answer.

And our question to the Ministry of Defense was clear: Is a demonstration-military parade of the newly purchased weapons planned for May 28, that is, in Sardarapat?

On February 10 we have published The response letter of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, which states:

«As of now, there are no discussions on holding an arms show-military parade in Sardarapat.”

In our second article on this topic, we drew attention to the fact that the Ministry of Defense in its response mentioned only the possible location of the military parade, Sardarapat, and not the date, May 28.

Accordingly, we assumed that a few days before the National Assembly elections, in any case, there would be a public display of newly purchased weapons in some format, especially since the Ministry of Defense stated that “there is no such discussion at the moment.” In other words, the possibility of this has not been ruled out.

And here is Nikol Pashinyan in Kapan on March 15 confirmed 168.amin early February, as well as our observations in this regard, saying in a conversation with citizens.

“There is a lot of talk about weapons, we also say why the state debt has increased. I made a statement 2-3 months ago that I will take and show those citizens who want to see what we have achieved. I have already invited several groups, we have gone, but the number of people is so large that we came to the conclusion that we should show it to everyone, we should show it publicly. And we are thinking of making a public demonstration in the near future so that our citizens can see what we are talking about. We will present a report to the people, probably in May, to show what we have done and what we have achieved. Moreover, we will show only the weapons acquired during our government and after 2022.”

Let’s remind that earlier Nikol Pashinyan is against to express in response to the display of modern weaponry purchased in the military exhibition version, including the proposals of ordinary citizens.

“There are opinions that it should be done, there are opinions that it is not necessary, for various reasons. Yes, after the military parade in Azerbaijan, the topic became active in Armenia as well. If we organized a military parade in November or December, it would be impressive, but we are preparing for the peace agenda.” in November 2025 had announced he

And in order, according to him, to “not spread wrong information”, at that moment they decided to organize a closed demonstration for individual groups.

But as we mentioned in one of our articles, if Pashinyan understands that a public demonstration or a military parade will help to keep the power, as a result of some “negotiations” with the Azerbaijani side, Pashinyan may go for it as well. It turned out that we were not mistaken.

Considering the need for a public display of the weapons purchased in Kapan during the last 2-3 years, Pashinyan also said.

“However, we do this by emphasizing peace and in the context of peace. there is peace, there is no tension with our neighbors, we hope that our neighbors will not perceive this as a show of aggression.”

In other words, months ago, in the logic of the peace agenda, it was not advisable to show weapons, now it is possible in the context of peace. And why, we have already mentioned.

By the way, published in February of this year, “From Pinaka to Gripen. Armenia opens its cards, Azerbaijan buys 6.5 billion worth of fighter jets” according to our article we wrote in the article: when during the visit of General Anil Chauhan, Chief of the Defense Staff of the Indian Armed Forces to Armenia, the samples of Armenian and Indian weapons were made public, Azerbaijan accepted it quite mildly, even though Azerbaijan once is a danger seen even at the level of the armed forces of the special forces of the Republic of Armenia.

Can we say that Pashinyan is trying to get a verbal agreement from Aliyev in such matters, otherwise how can we understand the change in approaches to the appropriateness of a public display of weapons over the months?

As for the increase in the state external debt based on the purchase of weapons, there are also interesting episodes related to it. we have reminded.

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