Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan commented on the detention of an Azerbaijani citizen who crossed the border by servicemen.
elchi reports that in his statement regarding the incident, Pashinyan said that the servicemen handed over the person to the relevant body after discovering him.
“A person crossed the border, servicemen discovered him and handed him over to the National Security Service. They saw a person approaching. Should they have shot him, killed him? What is the problem here? They didn’t arrest him in Republic Square…” Pashinyan said.
The Prime Minister of Armenia added that there is no border in the world that cannot be crossed.
“There is no border in the world that a person cannot cross. Such a border has not existed from the time of the Macedonians to this day,” he noted.
It should be noted that according to the information released today by the National Security Service of Armenia, an Azerbaijani citizen was discovered on October 19, 2026, at 17:50 in the Tavush region of Armenia. The Service’s information stated that Yashar Ali oglu Gasimov, born in 1968, a resident of Chatax village of Tovuz district of Azerbaijan, was discovered. As a result of the verification measures, it was determined that he had entered the territory of Armenia due to being lost.