ArmInfo. Armenia, in particular, during the presidency of Robert Kocharian did not recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh in order to avoid war. Leader of the "Hayastan" bloc, second president of Armenia Robert Kocharian stated this on June 7 during a meeting with voters in the Meghri community of the Syunik region of Armenia.
In his words, despite the fact that Armenia did not recognize the independence of Artsakh, in fact everything was done to create an asymmetric confederation with the republic. "That is, Karabakh had its own president, parliament, state bodies, but" everything was together. This means that we were building one country, "Kocharian said.
At the same time, as the ex-president pointed out, there were sensitive issues, where the Armenian side was always careful not to provoke a war. In this context, as Kocharian stressed, the correct negotiations from the Armenian side were so that Baku does not lose hope of returning the territories, since the alternative to this is war. If Pashinyan's team did not come to power, Armenia could negotiate for another 30 years, he said.
Answering the question that during the whole war the Armenian authorities had been trying to convince the people that "victory would be ours," in the end it turned out that they had suffered a devastating defeat, Kocharian suggested that officials be prosecuted for lying.