Pashinyan says he is ready to sign document that would make people call him traitor

YEREVAN, September 14. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said today that he was ready to sign a document that could make his fellow citizens call him a traitor.

He did not say with whom he was going to sign the document, saying only that "we know where we are, between whom and must go for a settlement."

"We want to sign a document because of which many people will criticize us, scold us, call us traitors, they may even decide to remove us from power, but we will be grateful if as a result Armenia will have lasting peace and security in an area of 29,800 square kilometers. I clearly state that I will sign a document that will ensure that. I am not interested in what will happen to me, I am interested in what will happen to Armenia. I am ready to make tough decisions for the sake of peace," he said.

Earlier, Denis Gonchar, head of a department at Russian Foreign Ministry in charge of relations with CIS countries, said that Russian Foreign Ministry envoy for special assignments Igor Khovayev will be making regular trips to Baku and Yerevan in September to continue the work on the text of the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and European Council President Charles Michel agreed to hold substantive talks on normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the level of Foreign Ministers of the two countries during the August 31 trilateral meeting in Brussels. -0-