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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan considered that there is no “diplomatic solution” to the bloody conflict in Karabakh province, and his surprise statement came at a time when international diplomatic action in search of a solution to the problem is accelerating. crisis.
“We must recognize that there is no diplomatic solution to the Karabakh case, now and for a long time,” Pashinyan said in a video posted on Facebook. “Anything that is diplomatically acceptable to the Armenian side is not acceptable to the Azerbaijani side,” he added.
He called on all “city, district and village officials, political parties, civil and commercial organizations to organize volunteer units” to fight alongside the separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh against Azerbaijan.
In what seemed to justify calls for volunteering, Pashinyan described the situation of the separatists at the front as “very bad”, adding that “there is victory or defeat and nothing else, and to achieve victory we must form voluntary units.”
In parallel, the unrecognized region’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday it had recorded another 62 deaths among the army, bringing the total number since the outbreak of clashes with Azerbaijani forces on September 27 to 834 people.
Azerbaijan’s response
In the first response to this, Hikmat Hajiyev, Vice President of Azerbaijan, said that Pashinyan’s statement shows once again that Armenia is not interested at all in the peaceful resolution of the conflict.
Hajiyev said in a statement that the leadership in Armenia recognizes that its objective is to keep the occupied territories in Azerbaijan under occupation, confirming that Yerevan’s official statements on the negotiated settlement of the conflict are nothing more than hypocrisy.
He added that the Armenian prime minister “recklessly encourages” civilians to take up arms and participate in military operations in pursuit of their political ambitions.
Hajiyev stressed that the international community and the countries chairing the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in particular, should draw a conclusion from the statement of the Armenian leaders in the context of the “constructive” position. of Azerbaijan regarding the conflict.
Drop 3 gears
On the other side of the conflict, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday that it had shot down 3 drones of the Armenian army in the border region.
In a statement, the ministry stated that the air defense forces shot down 3 Armenian army drones, two of them were shot down over the city of Fuzuli and the third was shot down towards Tartre.
Diplomatic efforts
As the fighting continues on the ground, steps on the diplomatic front are accelerating. While the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers arrived in Moscow for separate diplomatic consultations on the conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region, while the Armenian president is discussing the conflict with officials from the European Union and NATO.
A spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Manatsakyanian announced that the latter would meet with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss “the establishment of a ceasefire agreement.”
For its part, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced that its minister, Jihon Bayramov, had arrived in Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart.
No meeting has yet been announced. At the previous joint meeting, which was held on the ninth of this month, an agreement was reached on a humanitarian truce, which came into effect the following day, but a dead letter remained. A week later, a second ceasefire failed.
For its part, Russia (the powerful regional power) has stepped up its calls for a ceasefire since the start of the fighting on September 27 in the majority-Armenian Karabakh region, which was separated from Azerbaijan with the collapse of the Union. Soviet, provoking a war that left 30,000 dead.
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