The conference was “Comprehensive Security and Resilience 2026”, in Armenpress’s report at 12:25. The narrative of “Western Azerbaijan”, Pashinyan said, “represents a serious challenge and a threat to the security of the Republic of Armenia” and is “a very serious challenge to the established peace”. He set it beside a narrative at home that he said is still being promoted, that “we must become strong and liberate the Republic of Artsakh”.
News.am’s report at 12:21 carries the arithmetic. Armenia’s territory is 29,743 square kilometres, the Armenian SSR’s figure under the Alma-Ata declaration; “the well-known enclaves are not within the 29,743, Artsvashen is, and the Soviet-era enclaves are not”. Artsvashen is the Armenian exclave inside Azerbaijan; the Soviet-era enclaves are the Azerbaijani ones inside Armenia, Kyarki among them.
A state that says its sovereign territory is 29,753 square kilometres “goes 10 square kilometres beyond international legitimacy”, he said, “and to say there is no Kyarki is to leave the logic of 29,743 square kilometres”. On Wednesday, in parliament, he had called naming Kyarki the neutralisation of “the last point of possible escalation”.
“Russia is not ready and will not finance Armenian European integration, and every step by Yerevan in that direction has objective consequences.”
At a briefing for journalists, in Armenpress’s report at 13:24, he said the inventory of relations with Russia continues, “and discussions continue or begin”. On the 102nd base, in News.am’s headline at 12:57: “We do not need the Russian military base; if they want, let them withdraw it even tomorrow.” “Not of vital importance” was the line he gave parliament on Wednesday.
Shoigu spoke at the presidium of the Security Council’s scientific and expert council, TASS reported, in Lenta’s and Profile’s accounts. “We note with satisfaction that the recent crisis period in bilateral ties has been overcome as a result of the joint efforts of Moscow and Baku,” he said; the common task now is for Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation to develop “in accordance with the leaders’ agreements”. Western countries in the South Caucasus, he said, “need only control over the region’s resources and logistical possibilities”.
On Armenia he was as plain: “Russia is not ready and will not finance Armenian European integration, and every step by Yerevan in that direction has objective consequences.”
The one Baku-Yerevan line of the day with a price in it came from Armenia’s economy minister, Gevorg Papoyan, in APA’s account of Armenian media: “Had there been no alternatives, and in particular Azerbaijani petrol, petrol prices would have risen sharply, as on international markets. We bought petrol from Azerbaijan so that its price rose by several percent instead of several times over.” Azerbaijani fuel deliveries to Armenia passed 21,000 tonnes in early September.
The TRIPP framework agreement, found constitutional on Wednesday, goes to the National Assembly once the court publishes its text. Pashinyan’s Moscow visit, announced by the Kremlin on 7 September, still has no date.