ArmInfo.Ara Papian, a member of the National Democratic Pole, a lawyer and political scientist, is convinced that the delimitation process that current acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan is talking about has no legal basis. Papyan stated this on June 16 during a press conference.
Thus, in his words, the National Democratic Pole believes that the issue of Artsakh must be resolved within the framework of restoring the territorial integrity of Armenia - the present Republic of Armenia must act as the legal successor of the first Republic. As the expert pointed out, Azerbaijan on October 18, 1991 renounced the Soviet political and legal heritage. Consequently, according to the internationalist, Baku's expectations that the delimitation should be based on the dividing lines of the administrative borders of the Soviet period.
Papian expressed regret in connection with the statements of first President of the Republic of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan that the whole world recognizes Artsakh as an inseparable part of Azerbaijan. According to him, firstly, the whole world does not and cannot have a clear position on this issue. Secondly, it is important what principles Armenia itself is based on to resolve this conflict. "Unfortunately, since the time of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Armenia has made serious mistakes: the RA had to unambiguously proclaim itself the legal successor of the First Republic, then the conflict would be transferred to the plane of international law and the question of what the internationally recognized borders of the League of Nations of Armenia were," he stated.