News - Armenia PM: Yerevan, Baku still speak different diplomatic languages

Yerevan suggests to Baku not to have troops on either side of the administrative border of the Soviet Union and also to resolve issues related to enclaves and exclaves. This was stated today, November 18, by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the 21st autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA) in Yerevan. He noted that Yerevan and Baku still speak different diplomatic languages and often do not understand each other. The Prime Minister also mentioned the objective reasons for this, “a long-standing conflict with a specific historical context, thousands of casualties, and you struggle to face their loved ones, dozens of prisoners whose family members have no answers, an atmosphere of hatred that prevailed for decades, and suspicions that bad things are hidden behind constructive statements. Moreover, what I am saying applies, at one point or another, to both Armenia and Azerbaijan.” Emphasizing that Azerbaijan, for example, has never publicly referred to the three already agreed-upon principles and has not affirmed its commitment to them, Pashinyan noted that this exacerbates the atmosphere of distrust.