Tension at the border dropped abruptly in past 1,5 years – PM Nikol Pashinyan

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says the tension at the border has abruptly decreased during the past 1,5 years.

“Generally the situation which we have in the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations always contains dangers in it, but I would like to say that today these dangers aren’t more than for example three, four or five years ago. If we were to monitor the border situation now, the degree of tension, we would see that during the past 1,5 years we generally have a very abrupt and significant drop in tension, and this drop took place in the context of the well-known Dushanbe discussions,” Pashinyan said, referring to his first meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during the September 2018 CIS summit in Tajikistan where the two leaders agreed to reduce tensions.

PM Nikol Pashinyan also noted that there is an interesting dynamics in the NK conflict settlement process also.

“Unfortunately, the tension – overall on a much lower level – exists, continues, and unfortunately we are having losses today also. No one is saying that we have reached peaceful settlement of the Karabakh issue, but on the other hand I think there is a rather interesting dynamics in the negotiations process, and I am optimistic that it will develop,” the Armenian Prime Minister said.