ArmInfo.According to RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, if the "Zangezur Corridor", put forward by Azerbaijan, becomes a reality Armenia will have problems with territorial integrity. This was stated in the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia.
So, in response to the request of RFE/RL's Armenian Service, to clarify what the head of the RA Cabinet of Ministers meant when on April 13, presenting a report on the implementation of the Government's program for 2021 from the rostrum of the Parliament, stated that "I could not convince myself for the reason that I realized that Robert Kocharyan did not exaggerate at all when he said that Armenia also has territorial problems."
"The prime minister meant that in the early 1990s, during the first Karabakh war, the Republic of Armenia also suffered territorial losses. In addition, in 2021, the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia was violated due to the invasion of Azerbaijani units into the Sotk-Khoznavar section of the sovereign territory of Armenia," the Prime Minister's Office said in a response.
To the question whether Armenia will face the problem of territorial integrity in the event of the implementation of the so-called "Zangezur corridor" put forward by Azerbaijan, a laconic answer was given: "Yes." For clarification, speaking of the territorial integrity of Armenia, the prime minister has in mind the issue of the Armenian enclave, which was part of Azerbaijan in the Soviet years, the Prime Minister's Office noted in particular: "Yes, it refers to the Artsvashen enclave and the fact that tens of kilometers of the territory of Armenia from the Tavush region, thousands of hectares of arable land are under the control of Azerbaijan."