Pashinyan Defends Recognition of Azerbaijan’s Borders
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Speaking in Yerevan on September 15, 2025, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan explained his 2022 decision to recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, saying Armenia’s own borders needed to be recognized, Orda.kz reports, citing NewsArmenia.
Why did I recognize the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan? So that the territorial integrity of Armenia would also be recognized, because there is no other way,he said at the Comprehensive Security and Resilience forum.
Pashinyan added that he had also recognized the borders of Iran, Türkiye, and Georgia, noting that Armenia has no disputes with those neighbors.
He criticized the CSTO’s reaction to Azerbaijani incursions in May 2021 and September 2022, recalling the bloc’s response that the border was “not delimited” and its repeated recognition of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, including Nagorno-Karabakh.
"This primary security concept — a military-political alliance — did not work in the context of Karabakh," Pashinyan said, pointing to Russia’s confirmation after the 2020 war that Karabakh is considered part of Azerbaijan under international law.
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