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Hayk Khalatyan, a political analyst at the Verelq Information and Analytical Center, on Saturday accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his government of promoting Azerbaijani narratives.

His comments came after Pashinyan draw parallels between the term “Western Armenia” and Baku’s fake “Western Azerbaijan” concept in a televised interview on Friday, stating that “hearing Western Armenia irritates some people the same way it irritates us when we hear Western Azerbaijan.”

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a forum in Yerevan, Khalatyan pointed to Pashinyan’s previous attempts to “legitimize” possible Azerbaijani attacks on Armenia.

“Given that the Armenian authorities are currently pursuing a policy that can be called “peace at any price”, they are doing their best to convince the Armenian public of the need to make concessions to Azerbaijan and Turkey in order to bring this policy to its logical conclusion,” the expert noted.

Touching upon Armenian-Russian relations, Khalatyan said: “Armenian-Russian relations are in agony. Everyone, especially in Moscow, is waiting for the end of this stage and the beginning of the next one to see whether these relations will be allied, as before, they will be more like partnership or Armenia should be considered an unfriendly country to Russia with all the ensuing consequences if the country becomes a Western tool against Russia,” he added.