(FILES) Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gives an interview to AFP in Yerevan on July 21, 2023. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said, on September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan started a "ground operation" in Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh but his army was not involved in fighting and the situation on the border was "stable". "Azerbaijan has begun a ground operation aimed at ethnic cleaning of Karabakh Armenians," Pashinyan said in a TV address. "I declare that Armenia is not involved in armed actions and does not have an army in Karabakh," he said, adding: "For the moment, the situation is stable along Armenia's entire border (with Azerbaijan)." (Photo by Karen MINASYAN / AFP)