Karapetyan's office tells Pashinyan: there will be no war

PanARMENIAN.Net - A spokesperson for the Mer Dzevov movement dismissed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s war claims, insisting Armenia will achieve long-term, guaranteed peace rather than face renewed conflict.

“There will be no war; there will be long-term, stable and guaranteed peace,” said Marianna Ghahramanyan in a Facebook post, commenting on Pashinyan’s statements.

Pashinyan accused Strong Armenia party leader Samvel Karapetyan, Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan, and businessman and philanthropist Gagik Tsarukyan of seeking to revise peace arrangements between Armenia and Azerbaijan and “open the door to war.”

“The weak leader who has irreversibly squandered the people’s trust, brought three wars upon Armenia and lost them, is afraid.

His fears have intensified after the presentation of future Prime Minister Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Security program. Fear forces him to blackmail his own people and threaten them with war.

Nikol Pashinyan, there will be no war; there will be long-term, stable and guaranteed peace—not with a single guarantor, but with more than one.

Strong diplomacy does not start wars; it prevents them. A strong army does not create risks; it deters them. A strong leader negotiates and saves lives without a single shot, while a weak leader brings war and accepts all the opponent’s demands, setting aside national state interests,” Ghahramanyan wrote.

In his address, Pashinyan said that the forces led by Kocharyan, Karapetyan and Tsarukyan are talking about renegotiating the peace established between Armenia and Azerbaijan, including imposing it by force.

“This clearly and unequivocally means not only opening the door to war, but making it inevitable,” Pashinyan said.

He added that rhetoric about guarantors “simply opens the door to bringing peacekeepers into our region and country.”

“We have all seen with our own eyes what consequences the activity of peacekeepers has led to. And the forces calling to fall into the same pit twice must be clearly and unequivocally rejected,” the prime minister said.

He also stated that “the agenda of revising peace is being advanced by emissaries of foreign states.”

Robert Kocharyan, the prime ministerial candidate of the Armenia alliance, said he supports peace with Azerbaijan only if clear security guarantees are in place. Gagik Tsarukyan has also put forward the idea of “guaranteed peace.”

On March 19, Nikol Pashinyan told journalists that if the opposition wins the 2026 parliamentary elections, a war with severe consequences could occur before September.