ArmInfo. Armenia, without a doubt, will remain the main guarantor of Artsakh's security (the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is red). On June 7, during the presentation of the program of the new government in the country's parliament, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this.
He once again confirmed the previously expressed approach on the need to involve Artsakh in the negotiation process. According to him, the participation of Karabakh in the negotiations was approved at the OSCE summit in Budapest in 1994. "After the year of 1998, the representatives of Armenia held talks on behalf of Karabakh, Robert Kocharyan was formerly the President of Karabakh, and Serzh Sargsyan was one of the organizers of the self-defense of Karabakh, therefore, they could either have a mandate for negotiations, regardless of how we treated it ", reminded Pashinyan, saying that he can not ascribe such powers to himself.
"There are no legal or moral grounds for this, the people of Karabakh do not participate in the formation of power in Armenia, it has its own government and president," Pashinyan said. At the same time, he called the arguments that the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh should participate in the negotiations unjustified because they came to Azerbaijan and became its citizens. "So, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev is holding talks on their behalf, as they participated in the elections, while the residents of Karabakh did not elect the power of Armenia, and the Armenian authorities can not represent them." They should have their own voice, "the prime minister said. , adding that he is ready for talks with Ilham Aliyev within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group. "But these negotiations should become more effective, and for this it is necessary that the agreements reached do not remain on paper," Nikol Pashinyan added.