News - National Assembly speaker: ‘Nagorno-Karabakh issue’ does not exist for Armenia

Armenia fully recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, including Nagorno-Karabakh. Alen Simonyan, speaker of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, told this to reporters at the NA Tuesday. "We have already said this eight times in the last year or two. What else needs to be said?" Simonyan emphasized. Also, he stated that a "Nagorno-Karabakh issue" does not exist for Armenia. "What does it mean ‘the Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)] issue is resolved?’ What is the resolution or non-resolution of the Artsakh issue? The Republic of Armenia does not have such an issue now," added the speaker of the parliament. According to him, the main thing for Armenia today is the signing of a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. During his press conference on May 22, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had explained that by saying Armenia recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan with an area of 86,600 square kilometers, it includes Nagorno-Karabakh.