ArmInfo. In the context of the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the third President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and his team put forward a dubious slogan: "the worst negotiations are better than the best war." Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated on June 20 during a meeting of the parliamentary Inquiry Committee for Studying the Circumstances of the Hostilities Unleashed on September 27, 2020 (44-day war).
<The former government did not understand that by the worst negotiations they gave Azerbaijan time to prepare for the best war for it. With this slogan, they also tied Armenia hand and foot, so that at some point <X> Armenia and Karabakh would be in a hopeless situation>, he said.
Pashinyan pointed out that at that time the ruling government was aware of the existing risks and tried to manage them, in particular, announcing the intermediate status of the NKR. However, after the Armenian side once again rejected the proposal of the OSCE Minsk Group mediators to return at least five regions to Azerbaijan without discussing the intermediate status of Nagorno-Karabakh, fixed by the Kazan document, after 2.5 months, the April war of 2016 began, which ended with the loss of 700-800 hectares of territory and an oral agreement on a truce.
<Please note that there is no document to end the April 2016 4-day war. This means that the 4-day war has not ended - only some kind of verbal agreement has been reached>, the prime minister said. Already in August 2016, Pashinyan added, the mediators voiced another proposal, which, unlike the Kazan document, does not imply an intermediate status for the NKR, and which only speaks of the right to full- fledged life of Nagorno-Karabakh until the final status is clarified.