There is decision on negotiation table by which Artsakh will become  part of Azerbaijan: Mamijanyan

ArmInfo.Head of the opposition "I have honor" parliamentary faction Hayk Mamijanyan insists that a  direct negotiation process between Stepanakert and Baku cannot proceed from the interests of Artsakh.

"Since November 9, 2020, I have stated that a direct negotiation  process between Baku and Stepanakert is possible only on the agenda  of integration or reintegration," Mamijanyan said at a briefing in  the National Assembly on May 2.

According to the parliamentarian, it is naive to expect that RA  Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan " will become a genius in terms of  diplomacy and change Azerbaijani approaches to this issue."  Therefore, we are witnessing the fulfillment of another condition of  Azerbaijan, he added.  <The direct negotiation process of  Stepanakert-Baku cannot follow from the interests of Artsakh, which  was also mentioned by various Artsakh officials, since the  negotiating agenda of the meeting does not include discussions of  humanitarian, situational issues, but  a real political, negotiating  process where Azerbaijan comes up with its own agenda , which is not  in the interests of Artsakh and Armenia>, he noted.

He recalled that back in November 2020, the leader of Baku said that  they were ready for negotiations with Stepanakert only within the  framework of this agenda. "There is no such mechanism that would  allow to separate the Artsakh conflict from the Armenian-Azerbaijani  relations and obtain a favorable solution, this is impossible,"  Mamijanyan said.

He also considers unrealistic the statement of the Armenian side that  they would fight for the formation of an international mechanism for  Stepanakert-Baku negotiations. <If you look at the narrative of the  current authorities, then all of them are trying to promote the  following thesis - Armenia is not represented in Artsakh, Armenia has  nothing to do with this process, this is all regulated by the  November 9 document, there can be no questions to Armenia, they  should be addressed to Stepanakert, > he noted.  Mamijanyan recalled  that for more than a year the opposition has been trying to convey to  the masses that official Yerevan has washed its hands of Artsakh, and  if earlier the authorities denied this fact, today they publicly  admit it. "There is a decision on the negotiation table according to  which Artsakh will become part of Azerbaijan," Mamijanyan noted.

Regarding Nikol Pashinyan's statement that Armenia recognizes the  territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Mamijanyan said that this is  another manipulation, since the Artsakh conflict has never been a  territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. "As for the  territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, the Armenian authorities have  never recognized Artsakh as a part of Azerbaijan for the simple  reason that Artsakh became independent earlier than Azerbaijan, in  accordance with the letter of international law at that time," the  opposition MP said, pointing to the fact that the current government  is silent about the right of the people of Artsakh to  self-determination on all international platforms.

Let's remind that the negotiations between the heads of the foreign  ministries of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the document titled  "Agreement on Normalization of Relations" have started in Washington,  with the mediation of the USA. As "Voice of America" reports,  referring to high-ranking officials of the US State Department, the  rights and security of national minorities are among the many issues  discussed between Baku and Yerevan.