17:59, 3 May 2023
YEREVAN, MAY 3, ARMENPRESS. Security and stability systems in the South Caucasus have been deformed or are being deformed, creating additional security challenges that can be overcome by establishing peace, ARMENPRESS reports, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during parliament-Cabinet Q&A session, answering the question of Sargis Khandanyan, chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly, who asked to present the Prime Minister's assessment of the strategic situation around Armenia and in the region.
"Before assessing the strategic situation in our region, it should first be noted that the international strategic situation has a direct impact on the strategic situation in our region. I must say that the events that took place in our region also had a certain impact on the further development of the international situation, and the strategic assessment is that the security and stability systems in our region have been deformed or are deformed or are being deformed, which means that we are facing additional security challenges. In other words, the system that was originally supposed to ensure security and stability in our region, that system obviously does not work with sufficient efficiency. In this sense, our strategic task is to manage the challenges caused by that deformation or to smooth out the complications brought by that deformation," Pashinyan said.
The Prime Minister presented the methods by which possible security attacks can be overcome.
"There may be a proposal or an approach that new components should be added to that overall security architecture, but it is not a fact that this will ensure strategic security in itself, because the new components can, of course, manage some of the existing risks, but on the other hand can in turn bring new risks.
If we ask the question, what or who can guarantee the security of the Republic of Armenia, the answer is unequivocal: security can be ensured by comprehensive peace”, Pashinyan said.
The Prime Minister also touched on another question whether peace is realistic and possible.
"Yes, of course, peace is possible, but it should also be possible to record in more detail how peace is possible. The problem is that there are two components here. The first is the political will to achieve peace, the second is the details of the parameters for achieving peace. It is obvious that we have the political will to achieve peace. Here the issue is as follows: to what extent we will manage to form such parameters of peace as a result of the negotiation process, which can be acceptable for the Republic of Armenia or the people of the Republic of Armenia. Yes, there is a possibility that peace is realistically possible with parameters that are fundamentally acceptable to the Republic of Armenia and the people of the Republic of Armenia, but there may be parameters that peace is realistically possible with parameters that are fundamentally unacceptable to the Republic of Armenia and the people of the Republic of Armenia .
Therefore, our task is to be able to balance and bring reality, acceptability and the emotional background related to the issue as close as possible to each other, to bring them on the same level and on the same field. I cannot say to what extent it will be possible, but I can definitely say that we will do everything to make it happen," concluded Pashinyan.