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Pashinyan Says Baku Seeking to Influence June Parliamentary Election

Acting Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan today said that Azerbaijani troops managed to cross into Armenia because the country’s border with Azerbaijan increased by several hundred kilometers after last year’s Karabakh war and that the areas in question are mountainous and snow-covered most of the year, thus making it difficult to erect any type of fortifications.

Pashinyan, at today’s government cabinet session, reiterated his charge that the Azerbaijani troop movement directly violates the November 9, 2020 Russia-brokered ceasefire.

He said that Baku’s aim might have been to provoke a war.

"We must focus our attention on the fact that this operation is carried out in the narrowest part of Armenia territory, in Syunik, which is about 26 km wide. If the situation got out of control, unmanageable events could develop there that could then lead to big problems. Our approach is that the issue should be resolved through international security mechanisms, which I think is right, at least for the time being. Until that happens, we cannot say that we have achieved our goal,” Pashinyan said.

He added that Baku may have ordered its troops into Armenia to influence internal political processes in Armenia and the results of the June snap parliamentary election.

Pashinyan claims that there is an “Azerbaijani propaganda” network operating in Armenia that is working to discredit his government.

Referring to the opening of transit links in the region, Pashinyan said Armenia has faced blockades on both sides since 1992, to its economic detriment.

He said that talk of a “Syunik corridor” is not on the government’s agenda.

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