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The Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) peace process should continue, but the Armenian state and people should be ready for any developments so long as the conflict is not resolved, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told reports at Yerablur Military Pantheon where he paid tribute to the hero soldiers fallen during the 2016 April War.

Commenting on a recent statement of Armenian Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan that the formula ‘territories for peace’ will no longer exist and will be reformulated into ‘new war – new territories,’ the PM defended the remarks, decrying the uproar around the statement as ‘senseless’.

“If Davit Tonoyan made a different statement, I would dismiss him as defense minister,” he said. “What he said was that should a new war break out, we must strive to win it. If a defense minster thinks otherwise, he/she should not hold the post,” the PM stressed.

According to Pashinyan, the minister’s statement does not undermine the peace process, on the contrary, it stresses the importance of the peaceful settlement process of the conflict.