Thursday, April 13 2023 22:27

ArmInfo.The third president of RA, Serzh Sargsyan, considers as a slander the statement of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that by Madrid principles, Armenia  recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as a part of Azerbaijan.

Yesterday at  the parliament, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol  Pashinyan stated that "it is necessary to fundamentally consider the  concept of Nagorno-Karabakh in the years of independence." <There are  two stages: before the Madrid principles and after them. Prior to the  Madrid Principles, the position of the Armenian side was that  Nagorno-Karabakh had never been part of independent Azerbaijan, and  in the context of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Artsakh exercised  its right to self-determination, leaving the USSR along with other  subjects as an independent subject, which is recorded in Almaty  Declaration>, he said. According to him, the Madrid principles  appeared iin 2007, when Robert Kocharyan was the head of state, and  Serzh Sargsyan was the prime minister of the republic. At that time,  it was pointed out that it was necessary to clarify the status of  Nagorno-Karabakh using certain mechanisms that should have been  agreed with Azerbaijan as well. As a result, as the Prime Minister  noted, there have been very serious fundamental changes. <Before the  Madrid principles, it was about the Soviet Union, after them -  Azerbaijan. This means that Nagorno-Karabakh must be part of  Azerbaijan in order to self-determine, otherwise, it is not clear  from whom it is self-determined. This content is our main omission,"  Pashinyan stressed.  As Sargsyan said in an interview with reporters  on April 13, every time he thinks about another "slander voiced by  the RA Governor", he wants to understand what he has the most  problems with - with morality, the ability to read and understand  diplomatic documents, or with memory. <When he wants, he loses his  memory, or breaks all the rules. Does what he wants. When he wants  to, he considers war as peace and defeat as victory. Everyone knows  that until 2018 (the Velvet Revolution - ed. note), all five parties  to the negotiations - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, the United States  and France, believed that the Madrid principles resolved the issue of  self-determination of Nagorno-Karabakh. After 2018, only four of them  think so>, Sargsyan noted.  And only the " ruler of Armenia " says  that the document "is about the surrender of Nagorno-Karabakh", the  ex-head of the RA emphasized.