I do not consider the return of Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh realistic. Nikol Pashinyan

Our policy is as follows: if our brothers and sisters forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh do not realistically have the opportunity or desire to return to Nagorno-Karabakh, we will do everything we can to ensure that they remain in the Republic of Armenia. RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this in an interview with the British media.

"I also want to tell you that recently, during one of my regional visits, a woman forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh came up to me and asked me a question, how realistic is it that we have the opportunity to return to Nagorno-Karabakh and said, please tell me directly and answer honestly.

I told him: I will answer you directly and honestly, in the current situation and the perceptions that exist in our region, and the perceptions that exist in Azerbaijan, and the perceptions that exist among the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the conditions of those perceptions, I I don't consider it realistic. I said: I cannot deceive you, because if it were realistic, the deportation from Nagorno-Karabakh would not have happened.

But it should also be noted that the RA government tried to do everything, moreover, in the very last days of September 2023, we were accused that, of course, there is no such thing, but it is also very important that the government operating in Nagorno-Karabakh at that time also some circles of the authorities accused us of the fact that the RA government does not allow the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to be saved and moved to Armenia.

Our idea at that time was as follows. we wanted to do everything in order to create conditions on our part, because it is clear that it is not completely in the range of our decisions, to do everything possible so that the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of the people of Nagorno Karabakh does not take place. But our efforts did not bear fruit," Pashinyan stated.