“The international situation directly impacts the assessment of the strategic situation in our region. The events that took place in the region also had a certain impact on the further development of the international situation,” said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
According to him, security and stability systems in the region have been deformed, are deformed, or are being deformed, which means that we are facing additional security challenges, “The system, which was originally supposed to ensure security and stability in the region, is not working efficiently.”
According to the Prime Minister, Armenia’s strategic task is to manage the challenges due to this deformation and smooth out the resulting inequalities, “By what methods and forms is it possible to do this? There may be a hypothesis, proposal, or approach that new components should be added to the security architecture, which is an approach. Still, it is not a fact that strategic security will be ensured by it. New components can manage the existing risks to some extent, but on the other hand, they can add unknown additional risks.”
Pashinyan noted that the question of who can provide security is wrong, “If the guarantor is someone, the security threat is great. Even if it is managed, it is managed temporarily. Peace can provide deep, strategic security.”
Turning to the question of absolute peace, the Prime Minister gave a positive answer, “It is necessary to record in detail how peace is possible. The problem is that there are two components here: the political will to achieve peace and the details of the parameters for achieving peace. We have the political will to achieve peace. The problem is as follows: to what extent can we create such parameters of peace due to the negotiation process that can be acceptable for Armenia and its people.”
Pashinyan also said that we live in a period of global uncertainties, where our delays double, “We are walking through a minefield, but we must note that the more we walk through the minefield, the denser the mines become, and this requires additional efforts, vigilance, and flexibility from us.”
