As of August 2022, the number of countries selling weapons to Armenia was zero, while other supply markets were closed, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a speech at the Comprehensive Security and Resilience conference.
“We had transferred hundreds of millions of dollars, but they would not give us the weapons we had paid for. When we tried to look elsewhere, arms supply markets were closed to us,” he said.
The prime minister said that in building comprehensive security, the way different issues are considered and perceived is of fundamental importance, Radar.am reports.
“It may turn out that many of our security problems begin in our minds, in our perceptions of reality and our environment. And that problem exists in Armenia today,” he said.
According to Pashinyan, the successful conclusion of negotiations on a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan became possible when, at a certain point, a decision was made to abandon the principle of mechanical reciprocity.
“The successful conclusion of negotiations on the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan happened when, at point ‘X,’ we decided to move away from the principle of mechanical reciprocity. We saw that we had reached a situation where there was no longer any potential to improve the text of the peace agreement through this ‘ping-pong.’ We faced a choice: continue that ‘ping-pong’ of reciprocity or move toward building a different logic. We decided that we agree to this text,” he said.
