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Prime Minister Pashinyan said Armenia must sign a “shameful” ceasefire agreement to avoid the danger that 25,000 soldiers will be surrounded and completely destroyed.
“When a soldier finds himself in a situation where he cannot change his situation, he does not deserve to die for his homeland, but the country must sacrifice for him,” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on November 12. “Because I understood this, I signed a shameful ceasefire even though I knew that the risk to my political career and my life was very high.”
Pashinyan added that 25,000 Armenian soldiers would face the possibility of being “surrounded and annihilated” by the Azerbaijani army before the ceasefire agreement was signed. He said the tripartite agreement between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia “was not the final solution to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.”
Clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh and neighboring areas erupted on September 27, the bloodiest armed conflict after the 1994 armistice. Around 5,000 Armenian and Azerbaijani soldiers and civilians died in the fighting.
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks in his office on November 12. Image: primeminister.am.
Prime Minister Pashinyan announced on November 10 that Armenia would end hostilities against Azerbaijan. Under the ceasefire agreement, Armenia returned control of some areas of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan and Russian peacekeeping forces were deployed along the Contiguous Line to oversee the implementation.
Pashinyan said the ceasefire angered the Armenians, but believed it was the right decision to protect the soldiers. “This came after the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia reported the urgent need to stop the war. The leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh region said that the capital, Stepanakert, could fall within hours,” he said. Pashinyan.
After the ceasefire agreement, hundreds of Armenians in the capital of Yerevan flooded the prime minister’s palace and the parliament building, fought with parliamentarians and knocked out the president of the National Assembly, Ararat Mirzoyan. On 11/11, thousands of Armenians continued to protest against the ceasefire, calling Pashinyan a “traitor” and demanding the resignation of the prime minister.
The Nagorno-Karabakh area (red). Graphics: guardian.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have clashed several times since pro-Armenian separatists controlled Nagorno-Karabakh after the war in the early 1990s, killing 30,000-40,000 people.
Nguyen tien (According to the RT)
