Pashinyan: If the agreement had not been signed, 20 thousand Armenian soldiers would have been captured

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed on Thursday that he had signed the agreement to stop the war in Karabakh and that he wanted to save his army from captivity.

“If he had not signed the agreement to stop the hostilities in Karabakh, more than 20,000 Armenian soldiers would have been captured,” Pashinyan said in a letter addressed to his citizens.

He added: “The signed document regarding Karabakh does not mean a final solution to the problem. In the current situation, accepting the conditions presented was the only way to avoid the total loss of Artsakh (the Armenian name of Karabakh) and thousands of human deaths. “.

He continued: “I made this decision after the (Armenian) army, in fact, insisted on making that decision … You imagine the situation when the army tells you to stop.”

On November 10, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani Ilham Aliyev signed a joint declaration on the total cessation of hostilities in Karabakh and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers on the line of contact between the parties. Armenian and Azerbaijani to monitor the two parties’ commitment to the agreement.

Opposition forces in Armenia, which continue to protest near the parliament building in central Yerevan, gave Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan until 12pm local time Wednesday night to announce his resignation.

Source: Agencies RT +

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