Half a million Azerbaijanis could move to Armenia if Pashinyan wins

“Pashinyan has no other choice but to settle accounts with Azerbaijan!” Such statements are being made in Azerbaijan following the “peace agreement” in Washington. They come from Aziz Alekberli, a member of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis (parliament) and chairman of the “Western Azerbaijan Community.”

Moreover, Alekberli claimed that there are already 500,000 “Azerbaijani refugees” who must “return” to Armenia.
“The question arises: what should Armenia and Armenians do? The answer is clear: they must unconditionally accept all of Azerbaijan’s terms, apologize to the Azerbaijani state and people, pay compensation for the damage caused to people and their property, and ensure a high-level peaceful ‘return’ of the ‘refugees’ to their ‘native’ villages and homes in ‘Western Azerbaijan.’ The sustainability of peace between our states and peoples depends on our people living together, and our coexistence depends on the ‘return’ of our ‘refugees’ to their ‘homelands,’” said the Azerbaijani MP.

Armenian authorities, their media, and “experts” may argue that just as Alekberli exists in Azerbaijan, there are also people in Armenia who believe Kars is Armenian and wish to return there. But the position of these individuals is not institutionalized in the form of NGOs or other legal entities supported by the state. Those who consider Kars Armenian have no parliamentary representative, no TV channel, and do not hold conferences in Brussels funded by the Armenian government. This shows that the issue of returning to Kars is not part of state policy. In contrast, the “Western Azerbaijan Community” enjoys full support from the presidential administration.

And the key point in this situation: after August 8, following the US-Armenia-Azerbaijan summit, the Armenian authorities, through various means—including featuring Azerbaijanis on Armenian Public Television (for example, an interview with “dissident” Arif Yunusov that circulated widely across pro-Pashinyan media)—claimed that the “Western Azerbaijan Community” had been de facto dissolved. We now see that this was yet another lie.

In other words, Pashinyan, who recently stated in the National Assembly that if the “Civil Contract” party is not re-elected in 2026, war will follow, may in fact resettle 500,000 Azerbaijanis in Armenia if he wins the election. And then war will truly become inevitable.

Think about it…