In general, it should be noted that there is tension on the border, and that tension is being maintained steadily at the moment. In that regard, taking into account the aggressive and military rhetoric of Azerbaijan, of course, new provocations are not excluded, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this in an interview with the Public TV Company, talking about the border situation.
When asked why Azerbaijan chose this period to carry out new aggression, the prime minister stated that it is important that all international attention is focused on the events taking place around Ukraine.
“In that sense, the choice of the 44-day war period, the Covid period, when the entire international community was focused on that epidemic and the internal problems arising from it, is characteristic, and now the situation is the same all over the world,” the Prime Minister added.
According to Pashinyan, it is possible that the increase in the importance of the energy component has a certain role in the fact that Azerbaijan’s positions are becoming more aggressive.
Referring to the fact that the names of the fallen servicemen were not published, Pashinyan emphasized that, taking into account the experience of the 44-day war, the government came to the conclusion that it is correct to publish the names of the dead and martyrs through an institutional, planned mechanism.
“It is the list recorded in the Military Servicemen’s Insurance Fund, the names are published there, the complete list of the victims of the 44-day war was also published there. Not publishing the complete list of victims does not mean that it is kept secret, because, of course, the families of the identified victims are informed. Also, let’s take into account that there are bodies that need to be identified definitively. Taking into account the previous experience, we know that, unfortunately, there were cases when wrong names were published, including when it seemed that there was visual identification, but DNA identification revealed something else,” the Prime Minister said.
