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Opposition MP Tigran Abrahamyan has reacted to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s latest statement that the prisoner swap can be considered a "zero point" in relations between Yerevan and Baku.

Azerbaijan on Wednesday freed 32 Armenian servicemen in exchange for Armenia’s release of two Azerbaijani soldiers detained in April this year.

“Why is Pashinyan again pushing the “zero point” narrative? It has been brought into the spotlight against the background of Azerbaijan's handover of prisoners to Armenia, but Pashinyan's goal is quite different,” Abrahamyan, secretary of the opposition Pativ Unem faction, wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

“It seems to Pashinyan that the repressive apparatus will allow him to rewrite history and the great betrayal he and his team have committed.

“Pashinyan's statements about a new chapter or zero point in Yerevan-Baku relations will not serve their purpose because the levers wielded by his Civil Pact party are naturally temporary. The problem is that history, while revealing new traitors, will unfortunately record new territorial concessions and heavy blows to statehood,” the MP said.