May 22 2026
Armenia premier: There will be no topic of return to Karabakh
I am giving guarantees that nothing like this will happen during our rule. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, who is on vacation and heads the ruling party’s electoral list for the parliamentary elections on June 7, stated this at a press conference Friday, in response to the question of whether he gives guarantees that 300 Azerbaijanis will not return to Armenia.
“That is a lie. I am saying that the Nagorno-Karabakh issue is closed, the Karabakh issue will not continue, there will be no topic of return to Karabakh, there will be no topic of return Nakhichevan, there will be no topic of return to Baku, there will be no topic of return to Sumgait, there will be no topic of return to Kirovabad [i.e. today’s Ganja], there will be no topic of return to Yevlakh, there will be no topic of return to Getashen, etc. Yes, I guarantee, it is an absurd topic, it is a topic of conflict; it is not a topic of peace [with Azerbaijan],” Pashinyan added, in particular.
And regarding the video where a group masked and armed people threatened him, Pashinyan said: “I think we have roughly clarified the circle of people, and in fact the people who we think are in that video have not been in Armenia since 2024. This is operational information, because we do not have proof. We have names and surnames. Previously, most likely, they were in our sphere of interest in other cases. In particular, it is possible that they are people involved in the logic of illegal mercenary activity.”
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