https://arka.am-YEREVAN, April 23. /ARKA/. The Republic of Armenia is not going to wage war over Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.
“Obviously, there were forces that in these conditions (during Azerbaijan’s aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023) wanted to drag the Republic of Armenia into a war with far-reaching goals. In response to the previous questions, I said that the Republic of Armenia is not going to wage war for Nagorno-Karabakh. I said that the Republic of Armenia has no ambitions beyond its internationally recognized borders,” he said in an interview with the British journalists.
On 27 September 2020, Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey waged a large-scale military attack against Nagorno-Karabakh until a Russian-brokered ceasefire was reached on 9 November 2020 leaving Azerbaijan in control of most of the region.
The 2020 war was rife with reports of the use of inherently indiscriminate munitions, chemical weapons, and Syrian mercenaries, as well as evidence of torture, mutilation, executions and enforced disappearances against
Three years later, on 19 September 2023, Azerbaijan launched its final military assault under the guise of an “anti-terrorist” operation to reclaim what was left of Nagorno-Karabakh.
After 24 hours of heavy bombardment, Azerbaijan succeeded in gaining exclusive control over the entire region and cleansing it of its ethnic Armenian population. The final days of September 2023 saw more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh and pour into neighboring Armenia. The forced displacement took place after Azerbaijan held the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh under blockade inducing starvation for nearly ten months. The United Nations estimates that as few as 50 Armenians are left.
Soon thereafter, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated: “Many reiterated there is no military solution to this conflict. We have shown that there is. And we have shown it again recently. This topic is now closed! The subject of the Karabakh conflict is closed once and for all!”