One of our government’s priority tasks is increasing Karabakh’s being a subject in the negotiation process [to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict].

The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, on Wednesday stated the aforesaid at his get-together in Tehran, with representatives of the Iranian Armenian community, according to Tert.am.

“We have to meet with the president of Azerbaijan; it will be a meeting without an agenda, but discussion of the negotiation format will be one of its important benchmarks,” the PM said. “Unless we have reached agreement on the format, the contacts can’t be considered official talks.

“[But] I speak on behalf of Armenia because I’m the prime minister of the Republic of Armenia. I don’t speak on behalf of Artsakh because Artsakh has its own authorities. The Artsakh authorities should speak in the negotiation process on behalf of Artsakh. We must do everything so that Karabakh has a new level of being a subject in the negotiation process.”

Pashinyan added that in case of any threat against Artsakh, the unity of Armenians will be doubled.