News - Pashinyan: Azerbaijan doesn’t want its troops to withdraw from territories of 31 Armenia villages

And what does Azerbaijan want? You have noticed that Azerbaijan regularly talks, as it puts it, about the territories of four villages, at the same time refusing to accept that the vital territories of 31 non-enclave villages of Armenia are under the occupation of Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting of the government of Armenia. "That is, this 4-31 applies to non-enclave villages. Our [i.e. Armenia’s] position on this situation is very constructive. We say that in order for the troops to move back from their current positions, it is necessary to reproduce the Armenia-Azerbaijan border on the map and on the ground and withdraw the troops of the two countries to that border line. That is, after the reproduction of the border, if it turns out that there are troops in front of that [border] line, both sides should withdraw. Baku is trying to word this situation in such a way that the Azerbaijani troops do not retreat from the territories of the 31 [aforesaid] villages of Armenia in any way; this is not a constructive position. And again on behalf of Armenia, I reaffirm Armenia's readiness to go to specific solutions, the principles of which have already been agreed upon," said Pashinyan.