Armenia`s premier is lying - expert

ArmInfo.Orientalist Sergei Melkonyan exposes Pashinyan's lies regarding the surrender of  Nagorno-Karabakh.

The expert noted that Nikol Pashinyan, who is still sitting in the  chair of the Prime Minister of Armenia, said on June 12 from the  rostrum of parliament that, according to the Lisbon Declaration of  1996, Nagorno- Karabakh was supposed to receive the highest autonomy  within Azerbaijan.

"This means that his political godfather Levon Ter-Petrosyan already  signed up to surrender Artsakh.

I will not go deep into history, showing the evolution of the  negotiation process over 20 years under the "former" ones," the  orientalist noted.

Instead, Melkonyan suggested recalling two important quotes in recent  years made by different officials.

In particular, the statement by the EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell  that "For the first time, the leader of Armenia has unequivocally  recognized the place of Nagorno-Karabakh under the territorial  integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan. This is unprecedented."

"That is, the European side records that Nikol's statement that  Armenia recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan is  unprecedented. This means that no one before Nikol agreed to such a  thing. Other "intellectual" exercises are speculation and  manipulation," noted orientalist.

The second quote that the expert suggested recalling was the words of  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, from the fall of 2016, that  "Behind closed doors, pressure is being exerted on Baku in order to  force an agreement to recognize the independence of  Nagorno-Karabakh."

"That is, the previous negotiation processes took place in the logic  of pressure on Azerbaijan for the purpose of concessions, and not on  Armenia, as is happening today. This is an indicator of the level of  Armenia yesterday and today," the orientalist concluded.