RA Prime Minister: It is necessary to analyze the current situation  without using all kinds of manipulations

ArmInfo.The person who took Karabakh out of the negotiation process and brought them to the plane of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations, today accuses the current  government of the fact that the Artsakh issue has turned into a  territorial dispute.

On December 5, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this in his  address to the people.  Meanwhile, in his words, the problem arose  when the previous authorities of the country entered the negotiation  process instead of Karabakh itself, and this happened more than 20  years ago, when the term "occupied territories" appeared. Then the  leaders of the country hastened to assure the public of Armenia and  Karabakh that there is nothing wrong with this term. Like, when you  enter the plane's toilet and close the doors, the occupation sign  starts to flash, that is, busy. In this case, Nikol Pashinyan  continued, we are talking about the events of the 2000s, which are  known to every citizen of Armenia.  Much is also said about the  diplomatic failures of the current authorities, proceeding from the  principle "time erases memory", which gave grounds for some  representatives of the former authorities to take advantage of the  current situation. Meanwhile, according to the head of the Armenian  government, the attitude of the international community to the  Karabakh conflict was formed not in 2020, but 25 years ago.  It was  then that the term "territorial dispute" arose, which became the  biggest problem in the subsequent period of the negotiation process  on Karabakh, and Armenia began to be recognized as an occupying  country. In this context, the question arises about what diplomatic  successes of the previous authorities are we talking about? "The OSCE  Lisbon Summit in 1995 became a success, when immediately after the  victory in the first Karabakh war, the international community  presented its approaches, the main thesis of which was the question  of the autonomy of Karabakh within Azerbaijan? Or a package of  proposals based on the principle of a" common state "can be called a  success. and the demand for the return of 7 regions adjacent to  Karabakh to Azerbaijan? Or can you call the results of the 1999 OSCE  Istanbul summit a success, at which it was recorded that the conflict  should be resolved within the framework of the territorial integrity  of Azerbaijan? The same question can be addressed to the Madrid  principles, in of which the shameful for the Armenian side provision  was recorded that Karabakh can secede from Azerbaijan only with the  consent of Baku, "Nikol Pashinyan asked questions, recalling the  Kazan agreements of 2011, as a result of which Azerbaijan" loudly  slammed the door. " The Armenian leadership then announced the  possibility of returning 7 regions to Baku's jurisdiction, but  Azerbaijan demanded more. Over the past 25 years, the head of the  Armenian government continued, many different documents have been  adopted, which spell out the requirement for the territorial  integrity of Azerbaijan and the possibility of negotiating  exclusively within the framework of this requirement.

Nikol Pashinyan noted that since 2013 Azerbaijan has embarked on the  path of military escalation, and no one in Armenia has condemned  this. Meanwhile, he continued, the goal of the current authorities in  the country was to get out of these diplomatic failures that have  been observed over the past 25 years. "We are also accused of not  being able to avoid the war. But we would have solved this problem in  2011. We could not avoid the war, but we were able to stop it as a  result of the signing of a trilateral document on November 9, and  this was a necessity. of war, speaking in parliament, I said that I  could immediately stop hostilities, while indicating the conditions  for their termination. And then no one made statements about the  possibility of transferring 7 regions to Azerbaijan, "the RA Prime  Minister stated, adding that now , through the prism of past events,  everyone suddenly remembered the "5 + 2" formula. The head of the  Armenian government pointed out the importance of investigating and  analyzing the current situation without using all kinds of  manipulations.

It should be reminded that yesterday evening in an interview with the  Fifth TV Channel, ex-President of Armenia Robert Kocharian sharply  criticized the policy of the current authorities, and, in particular,  the RA Prime Minister. In his opinion, the war could have been  stopped during the first days, but the Armenian leadership became  hostage to its own lies spread. According to Kocharian, the Armenian  Prime Minister was obliged to stop the war the next day after he  received a report from the General Staff that the war could not be  won, that the forces were too unequal. He could accept the "Lavrov  plan" and stop the war, even if the plan involved the return of  territories. Kacharyan noted that if he were president, the war would  not have started, there would have been no diplomatic, as he put it,  nonsense, which made the war inevitable and Aliyev would never have  dared to start it. "We have a government that lost the war and wants  to impose this loss on the people, the army. You know, there are no  badly fighting peoples, there are bad, weak governments," Kocharian  said.