ArmInfo. The demagogy and lies of Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan know no bounds, Levon Zurabyan, Vice-Chairman of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), wrote on his Facebook account.
He noted that for the second day in a row Pashinyan has been trying to absolve himself of blame for recognizing Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan. The deputy chairman of the ANC believes that in terms of its catastrophic consequences for the Armenians of Artsakh, this step is equivalent to the alliance of Melik Shahnazar with Panah Khan against the Armenian meliks and will forever remain in history as one of the two treacherous and fatal blows dealt to Artsakh.
"Realizing this reality, Pashinyan, with his special mental magic, is trying to present the reality as if he, by signing the Prague Declaration and accepting the Almaty Declaration as the basis for resolving the Karabakh conflict, did not take any new steps. To prove this desire, he makes two statements, namely, that Armenia signed and ratified the Almaty Declaration in 1991-1992, thereby allegedly recognizing Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan, and that in an interview given in one of the Russian newspapers, the first President of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan stated that the autonomy status of Artsakh acceptable to him, thereby allegedly confirming the Almaty Declaration as the basis for the recognition of Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan," Zurabyan noted.
He added that since this nonsense has been circulating in the state media of Armenia for the second day, there is a need to once again remind about generally known facts. <Armenia signed and ratified the declaration signed in Minsk between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus on the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Taking into account the possible accession of Azerbaijan to the CIS, Armenia ratified the above declaration with appropriate reservations, stating that the principle of recognition of territorial integrity does not apply to former autonomies that, in accordance with the legislation of the USSR, declared their independence. This is the legal basis of the Republic of Armenia, which is still in force today," the deputy chairman of the ANC emphasized.
He recalled that Armenia did not ratify the Almaty Declaration, being satisfied with the legal framework and obligations that arose as a result of the signing and ratification of the Minsk Declaration. <Ter- Petrosyan has never recognized the integrity of Azerbaijan as the basis for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, consistently vetoing attempts to mention Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan in any OSCE document and rejecting any solution proposing such a solution. In March 1992, Ter-Petrosyan told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that, in his opinion, full autonomy for Nagorno-Karabakh could be "acceptable for both Karabakh and Azerbaijan." Two months after this statement, we liberated Shushi.
Earlier, I explained that this military operation had already been prepared and authorized, and the statement was made only as part of the information support of the military operation. I understand that it will be difficult for Nikolov's ignoramuses to understand the content hidden especially under the expression "information support for combat operations," but to say more I will have to reveal state secrets, which, naturally, I will not do. In any case, such a thing was never presented in diplomatic instances as the position of Armenia and never formed the basis of our policy, moreover, it had nothing to do with the Alma-Ata Declaration," Zurabyan noted.
He stated that Nikol Pashinyan's attempts at self-justification once again expose the sad reality that we are dealing with a liar leader whose only goal is to evade responsibility