17 Oct 2026
Armenia FM on Karabakh conflict: If someone is allowed to resolve matters by force, then everyone is allowed
The international community must decide on the matter of the activity of the principle of non-use of force. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated this at Wednesday’s joint news conference with Alexander Schallenberg, the visiting Austrian Minister for European and International Affairs.
Answering the question about the possibility of signing a peace agreement with Azerbaijan and the respective "red lines" of Armenia, the FM noted that the answers are more than obvious.
"I have already said that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing is the only international format endowed with a mandate to find ways to resolve the Karabakh conflict. The solution has not been found yet, and the negotiations in that format must continue," Mirzoyan stressed.
The Armenian Foreign Minister noted that one of the results of this work should be the clarification of the parameters of the universal peace agreement and, in fact, its signing.
"One of the principles is the right of peoples to self-determination. The other principle, the principle of non-use of force, was grossly violated [by Azerbaijan] in 2020. Not only Armenia and Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)], the whole world must decide whether this principle remains on the agenda, or the states can resolve the fates of the peoples by force. If the rule is violated for one, then such a ‘door’ is opened for the others, too," Ararat Mirzoyan warned.
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