Armenian PM considers destructive any attempt to continue Karabakh movement

YEREVAN, April 17. /ARKA/. Any attempt to continue the Karabakh movement is destructive, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.

“The ruling majority,- I personally, we declare that any attempt to continue the Karabakh movement is destructive, because it was and will be a tool to impede Armenia's statehood, independence and sovereignty. Unfortunately, we realized it very late,” he said, speaking in the parliament on Thursday.

According to him, the opposition is essentially saying that Armenia's statehood had and has one goal and meaning - the Karabakh movement, the Karabakh issue, and that “the Karabakh movement should be continued regardless of its consequences.”

The Prime Minister disagreed with this statement. “Looking back at the 7 years of our rule, we have come to the conclusion that the Karabakh movement objectively ended long ago, and our collective efforts to continue it continue only to put an end to the existence of Armenia's already weakened independence and statehood,” Pashinyan said.

Recently, Armenia's third president Serzh Sargsyan said that the page of Karabakh has not been turned and the issue should be put back on Armenia's political agenda.

Less than a month ago, on March 29, at a rally in Yerevan, Karabakh Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan, on behalf of the forcibly displaced Karabakh people, stated his disagreement that the Karabakh movement should be stopped. He emphasized that the people of Karabakh have the right to return, the right to collectively live in their native land with dignity and security and are not going to give it up.-0-