Pashinyan: Turkey must revise its aggressive stance to promote regional peace

To raise the chances of a steady peace across the region Turkey must revise and change its aggressive policies, while simulttaneously opening up the perspectives of economic recovery, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview today in the run-up to his scheduled trip to Moscow.  

Speaking to Hovhannes Kyosyan, the correspondent of the Russian Interfax in Armenia, he also warned of the challenges stemming from the closed Armenia-Turkey border. “I would like to remind you that the Armenian-Turkish border was closed unilaterally by Turkey back in 1993.

"Armenia has always acted in support of an unconditional establishment of relations with Turkey. Yet Turkey rejected it. Such a hostile policy by Ankara gained a new momentum in the period of the 44-day war, which Azerbaijan had provoked against Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh]. In particular, Turkey provided Azerbaijan with a direct politico-military and technical-military assistance, deploying also other countries’ armed terrorists to the conflict zone. Hence to establish a steady peace and  to recover the economic perspectives, it is necessary for Turkey itself to change its aggressive policies towards Armenia,” he said.