Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has suggested that Baku close the "Western Azerbaijan" issue. "On the one hand, Azerbaijan says "Western Azerbaijan," on the other hand, it says "Karabakh Armenians." I said in my address of August 18, 2025, following August 8, that the topic of return is a perilous topic," Pashinyan said in a conversation with journalists in Germany.
"And I want to make an open, public proposal to Azerbaijan now, because as much as they have problems with these topics, we also have issues. Let's adopt a joint roadmap to close these two topics in parallel. I have also told our people of Karabakh that their return is not realistic.
If we continue the return agenda, we are effectively restarting the Karabakh movement, which I have said we should not. The Karabakh movement has ended, and attempts to start it are not helpful. But on the other hand, in Armenia, they see that Azerbaijan constantly uses the incomprehensible terminology of "Western Azerbaijan". Now we need to understand which is the cause of which, which is the cause, and which is the consequence.
I am making a direct proposal and hope it is translated so it reaches the point. I say, let's sit down, develop a roadmap on how we remove this topic, because removing this topic means eliminating any conflict situation in the long-term strategic sense," he said.
He noted that if Armenia and Azerbaijan recognized each other's territorial integrity, there would be no "Western Azerbaijan" in Armenia.
