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The Chairman of the Armenia's Parliament Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, MP from the Republican Party of Armenia Armen Ashotyan deems as dangerous PM Pashinyan’s comments on the Panik incident -  an announced military exercises by the servicemen of the Russian military base in the territory of Armenia. To note, on July 17 reports and footages were circulated in the made showing how residents of the village were shocked by the sound of explosions and gunfire by Russian militaries who launched exercises near the populated area without prior notification.

Today, at a cabinet session PM Nikol Pashinyan called the incident as “unacceptable” and “provocation against Armenian-Russian relations and against Armenia’s sovereignty.”

“The assessment that does not corresponds to the depth of Armenian-Russian strategic relations is extremely dangerous,” Ashotyan wrote on Facebook.

In Ashotyan’s words it is obvious that any encroachment against Armenia’s sovereignty is unacceptable, yet the case the PM referred to was not the one.

“As of yesterday, the incident concerning the exercises was solved in the public discourse, accept the apologies of Russian military and continue the process through working consultations, excluding similar incident sin the future,” Ashotyan said, questions the motivations of the PM’s reaction, considering also the fact the Russian military base had already come with regret and apologies.

Ashotyan also criticized ‘precipitous conclusions’ about the incident by certain Russian media outlets and analysts.