Peace was established on August 8 in Washington — simply put, that is what happened, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a Q&A session in the National Assembly. He was responding to a question from Civil Contract faction MP Marina Ghazaryan.
“There is a lot of talk about how the Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations was only preliminarily signed. But 77.6% of those who now say that it was ‘just a preliminary agreement,’ or treat it as insignificant, were predicting in January, February, and March that there would be a war on August 8. They've now forgotten that — no one remembers it — but a peace declaration was adopted, and people still say, ‘Well, it's just a peace declaration,’” Pashinyan stated.
He emphasized that peace has, in fact, been affirmed:
“Peace has been established. The question now is what we do with that peace. We must develop it — from this point forward — toward institutional strengthening, in defiance of those who wish to take it in the direction of institutional destruction,” the Prime Minister concluded.
