Armenian armed forces have to be ready for any scenario in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, the country's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.
"We have already spoken about mobilization on the border, the statements released by Azerbaijan say massive drills will take place. I think our armed forces have to be ready for any scenario, and I gave such an order," Armenian Prime Minister noted.
Earlier, Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said that delaying the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict leads to its escalation on a broader scale.
Despite facing strong international pressure, the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders have failed to agree on the basic principles of ending the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict put forward by Russia, the United States and France in 2011.
Armenia and Azerbaijan thus remain officially at war over Nagorno-Karabakh and the dispute is a major source of tension in the South Caucasus region wedged between Iran, Russia and Turkey.
No country - not even Armenia - officially recognizes Karabakh as an independent state.
The mountainous rebel region has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since it broke free of Baku's control after a fierce war in the early 1990s that killed 30,000 people.
