Speaker of Armenian Parliament avoided answering question whether he  considers Artsakh to be part of integrity of Azerbaijan

ArmInfo. Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan declined to answer the question whether he considers Artsakh to be part of the integrity of  Azerbaijan.

Thus, on April 11, during a press conference on Facebook on the air  of Azatutyun TV, to the user's request to give a short answer "yes or  no" to the question of whether he considers Artsakh to be part of the  integrity of Azerbaijan, Simonyan stated that he had no right to  answer this question, since Armenia is negotiating and entering the  negotiation process.

"The position of the speaker of the parliament of a country with  parliamentary rule in such a specific formulation of the issue and  the conduct of negotiations can affect the content of the  negotiations. And if the questioner is not satisfied with my answer,  heshe can follow our actions. No government has done as much for  Artsakh as the "Civil Contract" after coming to power, this is a  fact. If they show me that any government has done more for Artsakh,  I will say: " very good," said Simonyan, forgetting that it was under  the rule of the "Civil Contrac" that Artsakh lost 75% of its  territories, and every day the population of Nagorno-Karabakh faces  Azerbaijani terror.

At the same time, referring to the 5 points put forward by Azerbaijan  to Armenia under the peace agreement, Simonyan stated that the  Republic of Armenia has never presented territorial claims to  Azerbaijan. "We have always said that this is a question of the  people of Artsakh, the right of Artsakh to self-determination, we did  not put forward territorial claims," Alen Simonyan.

At the same time, he added that many details about these 5 proposals  and the situation in Artsakh and around Armenia will become known  within the next 2-3 days.

As for another question, why the current authorities do not use the  form of names of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh or the Republic of  Artsakh, the speaker of the parliament said that this is due to the  fact that at this stage of the negotiations he does not consider it  appropriate.

To clarify why they (the current authorities of the RA - ed.) do not  visit Artsakh, for example, to get acquainted with the problems on  the spot, is it possible that they do not do this in order to avoid a  harsh reaction from Azerbaijani President Aliyev?, Simonyan stated:  "what will Aliyev do with me, for example, if I go there? He can't do  anything. I am not going there so that this does not become a cause  of provocations... If I go, nothing will happen to me, I will go and  return. But if I go, and the Azerbaijanis use this as a pretext for  shelling our villagers, our citizens, why do this? I think this is  wrong. There are negotiations. I must not give the other side a  chance to fire even once."

It should be noted that after the 44-day military aggression of  Azerbaijan against Artsakh, neither the President of Armenia, nor the  Prime Minister, nor the Speaker of the Parliament, have ever visited  Nagorno-Karabakh.

It is noteworthy that before this aggression, the Prime Minister of  Armenia, together with his wife, visited Nagorno-Karabakh almost  every week. And it was from the capital of the NKR, Stepanakert, that  he made his scandalous statement "Artsakh is Armenia, and that's  final!"