During a briefing with Nikol Pashinyan after the government session, journalists asked him a question about the Azerbaijani military operations aimed at the depopulation of Artsakh on September 19-20, 2023, and whether the people of Artsakh would fight or not.

“After the events of 2023, there was a meeting of the RA Security Council, where the results of the combat operations that took place were analyzed. I, not being able to reveal much, want to record that the claims about fighting and so on are, to put it mildly, untrue, because according to the data of our intelligence and not only intelligence, the lion’s share of the available weapons and ammunition, it could be 80 percent, it could be … percent, remained untouched. Before that, we had created an opportunity for a political process to take place, and some representatives of the ruling circle of Karabakh not only prevented it, but also implemented it. change of power in Karabakh, RA NA congratulated each other. And just a week after those congratulations, the events that happened happened. I warned the representatives of Karabakh at that time, I said: if you leave, know that there will be no chance to return.”

In this context, Pashinyan did not agree with the claims that Azerbaijan carried out genocidal acts in Artsakh.

“It is enough to feed our people with information about the new genocide. And, in general, the race of these genocides should be stopped. In our region, everyone accuses everyone else of genocides. With talk about genocides, by the way, it is hard to say which one happened after, we get talk about genocides, with talk about return we get talk about return.

And those myths: they fought to the end, etc., by the way, if necessary, we will declassify those data. I am sure, this dough will carry a lot of water, we will wait for it to do well, to publish the documents of the Nagorno Karabakh negotiation process at the right time, it is a lie, nothing like that happened, they ran away, they looted,” he insisted.

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