1 mm of trust between Yerevan and Baku yields 10 cm of progress

The year 2026 will be a very intense year for Armenia, as the European Political Community summit will take place in the country, the biodiversity COP17 summit will also be held in the fall, as well as the next parliamentary elections.

1news.media infroms, citing Armenian media, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this during his concluding remarks at the National Assembly debates on the 2026 state budget draft of Armenia on Wednesday.

“I once again record that I and the ruling majority are approaching the next parliamentary elections with a huge reserve of optimism and positivity,” Pashinyan added.

“I must once again record that, yes, peace has been established between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Our task is to take care of, strengthen, and institutionalize peace. Analyzing the work of recent times, it is very important to record the following that if I put it very conditionally, one millimeter of trust between Armenia and Azerbaijan— when trust increases by one millimeter — brings 10 centimeters of practical progress. This is clear; I am stating a conditional formula, but I want to share my impressions in that regard as well. And I want to say that today I am much more optimistic about the prospects for peace than I was, let’s say, on August 15–20, 2025, although at that time I was more optimistic than I had ever been before,” the Armenian PM said.