ArmInfo.On June 20, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, during a meeting of the parliamentary Inquiry Committee for Studying the Circumstances of the Hostilities Unleashed on September 27, 2020 (44-day war), explained why in 2019 he announced that he was starting negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict from his own point of view.
<The short answer to this question is that as of May 2018, I had two possible options not to start (negotiations) from my own point. The first option is that Azerbaijan should actually recognize the intermediate status of Nagorno- Karabakh according to Kazan logic. It was impossible, why should Azerbaijan accept what it rejected 7 years ago, and for which it started and did not end the April four-day war.
The second option: Apart from recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, I had also agree to the status quo established not only around Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, but also in NK itself, and to dismantle the existing status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh. This is also impossible to imagine from today's point of view>, he pointed out.
On April 9, 2019, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated in the National Assembly: "We are not going to start military actions against anyone, but if someone starts military actions against us, we will force him to peace." When asked if the talks provide a guarantee that Azerbaijan will not try to resort to military action, Pashinyan replied in particular that Azerbaijan from time to time tries to use the threat of force as a factor in the negotiations. <We are just saying the following: let's not use it, because if we go on like this, then we will use it as well, and what will be the result? Let's form the peace agenda and work on the peace agenda, we want this>, he said.
When asked if he started the negotiations from the point where the former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan left off, Pashinyan replied: "No, I started the negotiations not from the point where Serzh Sargsyan left off, but from my own point, this is an important nuance> . The meeting of the parliamentary Inquiry Committee for Studying the Circumstances of the Hostilities Unleashed on September 27, 2020 (44-day war), war will continue on June 27. On this day, Nikol Pashinyan will answer the questions of the committee members.