Most important tool for genocide prevention is dialogue: Armenia’s Prime Minister

The most important tool of the prevention of genocide is dialogue and cooperation, including between Baku and Stepanakert, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said in his remarks during the 4th Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide in Yerevan.

“I don’t want us to consider and perceive genocide as something that cannot be avoided or prevented. I want to note, that regardless of how weird it may sound, I am convinced that, nevertheless, the most important tool of the prevention of genocide is cooperation and dialogue, including between Baku and Stepanakert. And we consider this very important in our foreign policy domain”, the PM said.

Pashinyan said Azerbaijan shows at every possible opportunity to say that they are willing to ensure the rights and security of Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.

“However, in the international platforms all the statements, the rhetoric that they use, it seems as it is of the international community, and not those people who are the beneficiaries of that statement. That statement has been addressed by Azerbaijan to the international community, but it seems it is not being addressed to the people of Nagorno-Karabakh. We believe that message would be true, would be honest if it is heard in Nagorno-Karabakh and among the Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh”, he said.

The Prime Minister noted that the content and quality of regional relations should be changed along with the difficult realities.

“It has to start with the simplest things. I consider the prevention, management and ultimately exclusion of hate speech in our region to be the biggest problem,” said Pashinyan.