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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian raised the “illegal blockade” with a group of members of the European Parliament at a meeting in Yerevan held on Tuesday.
Armenia - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian chairs a cabinet meeting in Yerevan, January 19, 2023.
Armenia - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian speaks at a congress of his Civil Contract party, Yerevan, October 29, 2022.
Commenting on the situation around Tegh, Pashinian said on April 6 that Armenia should continue to exercise caution and avoid another escalation.
Its mayoral candidate, Mane Tandilian, too has described the Yerevan polls as an opportunity to precipitate the Pashinian government’s ouster.
Observers believe that Moscow thus underlined its strong economic leverage against Armenia to warn Pashinian against further reorienting the country towards the West.
Pashinian also highlighted the need for guarantees as “any agreement, even the most unambiguously written one, allows for interpretations.”
Pashinian spoke the day after Karabakh’s government and main political factions criticized his statements on the conflict with Azerbaijan and, saying that they undermine the Karabakh Armenians’ right to self-determination.
Speaking at a July 25 news conference in Yerevan, Pashinian said that the European Union and especially the United States have played lately the leading role in international efforts to end the Karabakh conflict.
The drop in living standards contrasts with statements by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and other senior government officials touting Armenia’s 12 percent GDP growth in 2022 and its purported impact on the population.