ArmInfo. Nikol Pashinyan's coming to power was a disaster for Armenia. The change in chief negotiator was a disaster. The remaining tragedies, the de-Armenization of Artsakh, capitulation, the humiliating position of Armenia , are only the consequences of this catastrophe. Third President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, stated in a conversation with reporters on April 4, referring to Pashinyan's recent statement.
Commenting on Serzh Sargsyan's conversation with journalists on February 16, when he said that in 2018 he had decided to run for the post of Prime Minister of Armenia in order to prevent the impending disaster. "I tried to prevent the impending disaster from the Armenian people," Prime Minister Pashinyan on February 28 in parliament said that "It is very important that today Serzh Sargsyan says this in retrospect". At the same time, Pashinyan asked that if trouble was imminent already in January 2018, then as a result of whose activities this trouble was approaching, and why the people of Armenia were not told about this imminent catastrophe. "Even if we assume that during his presidency Sargsyan was constrained by a number of obligations, it is unclear why after the 2018 revolution, the country's public was not aware of the impending catastrophe. And why was the new government of the country not informed about this? - Nikol Pashinyan wondered.
According to Sargsyan, "the head of Armenia is a cosmic scale liar." "Both he and our people were warned for the first time on April 17, when I was elected prime minister. Then I said that the negotiation process had been stopped. After that I explained what the problem was. At first they didn't seem to notice this, and then they began to take words out of context and present them as "evidence" of the failure of the negotiations. Then, after the 44-day war, they began to lament: look, he said that there would be hostilities, that it would be bad, etc. They talked about this for 2 years, and now they say that we did not warn them," he pointed.
According to Sargsyan, the second warning he voiced at the only meeting in the last 30 years, when at the Marriott Hotel on April 22 (2018, ed, note) he said that he (Pashinyan) had not learned a lesson from the of March 1. "And, of course, he distorted everything, saying that I allegedly threaten our people," added Sargsyan.
The next warning came on May 1, when Pashinyan was nominated for the post of Prime Minister, and the MP of the RPA faction announced that he cannot rule, cannot be the supreme commander, that this will have tragic consequences. But he did not accept that either. "The next reminder in direct text was in March 2020, when he literally said in Vayots Dzor that Serzh Sargsyan and the RPA are scaring us with war. And if we didn't say this, then where did these words come from? As for his words that there was a person who communicated with both him and me, then yes, there was such a person. But, unfortunately, this person cannot testify now. I don't want to say his name: When I personally held a press conference in the summer of 2020, I said that military action was already approaching. What other warnings could there be?>, concluded the 3rd President of Armenia.