13:11, 20 March 2023

YEREVAN, MARCH 20, ARMENPRESS. The ongoing peace treaty process with Azerbaijan is no guarantee that it will suppress a possible new provocation by Baku, therefore Armenia is increasing its defense capabilities every day, Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan told reporters when asked whether or not the talks have entered a deadlock.

Simonyan said there is a “high threat” of new provocations and attacks by Azerbaijan. “But I don’t think it’d be right to say that it’s in a deadlock. Nonetheless there is a process, it hasn’t stopped. I think calling it a deadlock would be wrong. But this doesn’t mean that it can be in a sense a suppressive tool against a new provocation by Azerbaijan. On the contrary, the reality in the talks could’ve been created intentionally to use it for some provocation,” Simonyan warned.

The Speaker added that regardless of anything, Armenia is constantly increasing its defense capabilities. 

“Even if we were to have the best, the most optimistic talks, we’d still be dealing with increasing our defense capabilities.”