Offices of Armenia`s first, second presidents respond to Armenian  premier`s call for live debate over Artsakh negotiation process 

ArmInfo. The offices of the first, second and third presidents of Armenia responded to the call of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to hold a live debate on the  negotiation process around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Thus, the press secretary of the first president of Armenia Levon  Ter-Petrosyan, Arman Musaelyan, reacting to the call of the Armenian  prime minister, noted on his Facebook page that it would be extremely  useful for the Armenian state and society for Nikol Pashinyan to  first hold a debate with Nikol Pashinyan. 

"As a result, I am sure that both sides of the debate will justly  justify each other's lies. Moreover, the debate between Nikol  Pashinyan and Nikol Pashinyan will be extremely useful not only on  the Karabakh issue, but also on any other topic of public concern.

Amulsar, monopoly of banks, party management of universities,  politicization of ambassadorial appointments, patronage of  state/political officials and embezzlement of the state budget  through various tenders, patronage, destruction of the independence  of the judiciary and dismissal of senior judicial officials through  SMS messages, use of law enforcement agencies as a baton against  political opponents, etc. The result will be the same again,"  Musaelyan added.

In turn, the head of the office of the second President of Armenia  Robert Kocharyan, Bagrat Mikoyan, reacting to Pashinyan's invitation,  noted that Kocharyan has not read the prime minister's meaningless  posts on Facebook for a long time, but he himself is forced to do so  due to the nature of his work. Mikoyan then noted that a  controversial topic is needed for debate. 

"And the fact that the surrender of the sovereign territories of  Artsakh and Armenia is the personal "merit" of the current prime  minister is an indisputable historical fact and obvious to all  adequate people," the representative of the office of the second  president of Armenia continued.

At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that in 2018-2024,  all power in Armenia belonged to one person, and this person bears  full responsibility for all events. "One person said that he was  negotiating from his zero point, and he would negotiate on what he  considered necessary, and this person is the current prime minister.  Of course, no one will discuss serious topics with comic characters  on TikTok. I am already silent about the existing, hiding behind  thousands of police officers and bodyguards. The multi-layered walls  of bunkers and shelters will speak more eloquently about this,"  Mikoyan added.

And in the office of the third president of Armenia, when Pastinfo  asked whether the issue of participation in the debates was being  considered, they noted that it was pointless to argue about the  obvious, especially since the entire history of the negotiation  process for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was  presented publicly and in detail a thousand times, both before and  after the seizure of power.

"Especially since the ruler of Armenia did everything to fail the  negotiation process. If he really wants to hold debates, we recommend  that he hold them with the presidents of the co-chair countries: the  Russian Federation, the United States and France, who in the period  from 2009 to 2013 five times declared the format of the negotiations  and the principles on which the Nagorno-Karabakh issue was to be  resolved.

It would not hurt to hear confessions from his "educated and  constructive" colleague from time to time, both for 2016 and for the  post-war period," the office of the third president of the Republic  noted.

On the morning of December 23, the Prime Minister of Armenia made a  statement in which he again asserted that since 1994, negotiations on  the Karabakh conflict were conducted around the process of  surrendering Artsakh to Azerbaijan. These statements by the Armenian  Prime Minister were harshly reacted to in the offices of the  presidents of the Republic of Armenia, where the negotiation process  was taking place. In response to the criticism, Pashinyan invited the  presidents to a public debate on this issue.