Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has warned that a new war could break out with neighbouring Azerbaijan if Armenia’s opposition wins the upcoming June 7 parliamentary elections.
“These forces are essentially promoting a revision of peace, which inevitably leads to war—potentially shortly after elections, at most by autumn,” Pashinyan said during a government briefing on Thursday. Pashinyan claimed that the rhetoric repeatedly voiced by the opposition with regards to the September 2020 war, namely reclaiming territories lost to Azerbaijan or revisiting past conflicts, signal a path towards a war. Attempts to revise peace are attempts toward war,” he emphasized. Pashinyan also accused the country’s opposition of being backed by Russia and Belarus. ‘They will preserve the billions they have in certain countries, because they have been sent here and told: if you do not solve the problem, what is formally registered in your name will no longer exist’, Pashinyan said, explicitly naming Russia and Belarus as the places where their assets are held.
The prime minister further said he expected the ruling Civil Contract party to have a constitutional majority’ following the parliamentary election, claiming that such a showing would guarantee that ‘in the context of regional peace, we make these processes fully irreversible’.
Pashinyan’s remarks were criticized by the opposition, which argued that even though he is widely regarded as “the embodiment of war and defeat,” Pashinyan sought to shift responsibility onto opposition parties, accusing them of advocating for military action—a stance they claim poses a danger to Armenian society.
Member of Parliament Grigoryan explained that within opposition circles, he does not observe any political group making aggressive or revanchist claims, nor any party promising to retake control of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-majority Nagornorno-Karabakh if they were to assume power.
Baku and Yerevan fought a six-week war over breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in 2020, which along with 7 surrounding regions was recaptured by Azerbaijan. The war ended nearly four decades of war between the two countries, with the final peace declaration being signed only in August 2025 in the presence of US President Donald Trump.
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