YEREVAN, March 19. /TASS/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told residents of borderline villages in the Tavush province that, unless Yerevan reaches a compromise with Baku on the issue of Soviet-era enclaves along the border, a war may erupt there later this week.

"Now we can leave here, go and tell [Azerbaijan], that we are not going to do anything. This means that a war will be started at the end of this week," Pashinyan said in a video of his meeting with villagers released by the Armenian government.

"I know what will happen when this war ends," the Armenian premier added as he explained that civilians would ask him, after a military conflict ends, why he, being aware of the threat of an outbreak of hostilities, hadn’t warned them in advance.