Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he does not see the need for an external guarantor mechanism to ensure the peace established between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Speaking during an election campaign event in Yerevan, Pashinyan, the leader of the Civil Contract party, argued that past reliance on security guarantors and formal defense arrangements had proven unreliable.
“Today there are political forces saying that we should have guarantors. We have lived in such a system, when we had a de jure binding legal contractual framework, when we had security guarantors who were supposed to ensure our security. But one of those security guarantors, in fact, made a very open and transparent statement while on an official visit to Baku—I am referring to the President of Belarus—saying that he participated in the preparatory work for the 44-day war. That person was one of our security guarantors, a member of the CSTO. And to keep stepping on the same rake every time is simply unacceptable. Ultimately, we must overcome the cycle in which we allow others to use us against others and then discard us,” Pashinyan said, adding that this is the most important historical-political change.
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