ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on former Armenian presidents, who had previously rejected his offer to participate in a debate on the Karabakh negotiation process, to think again and take advantage of this opportunity. He made a repeated invitation in a video posted on his Facebook account.
"In fact, this is the moment of truth, because the debate I proposed to the Armenian presidents should be of paramount importance for the people to make a final and unambiguous conclusion about what ultimately happened throughout the history of the Third Republic: who is guilty, of what, and who is guilty of what.
This is an exceptional opportunity for people who are the primary source of information to meet face to face and complete a remote and long-distance debate. Moreover, this is not just a conversation about the past, but a key event for determining future strategies, orientation in future strategies. We need to make final conclusions and understand what happened and why," Pashinyan said.
According to him, the issue is not only in debating, but also in interpreting their own history to their people, giving them the opportunity to understand it or depriving them of this opportunity.
"True, former presidents have directly or indirectly rushed to abandon the debate, but I urge them to think about it again, because conclusions will ultimately be made. I cannot allow a conversation that has lasted for about 4 years to remain unfinished. I am determined, and I will go to the end. In what format - that is another question. I choose the honest path," he Prime Minister noted, calling for his proposal to be accepted, otherwise, "the conclusions will remain with the people, and they will help in this matter."
Nikol Pashinyan stated the day before that since 1994, that is, after the ceasefire, the negotiation process was conducted exclusively around the return of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. "Narratives about other content were introduced in the Republic of Armenia exclusively to solve domestic political problems. In this context, I made a big mistake - in 2018, when I was getting acquainted with the content of the negotiations, I did not admit to myself the above (my patriotism of the model known to you did not allow me to do this) and, therefore, I did not explain all this to the people," Pashinyan wrote in a social media post. 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.
In response to this, the office of the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan, represented by the press secretary of the first president Arman Musaelyan, noted, not without irony, that it would be extremely useful for the Armenian state and society for Nikol Pashinyan to first hold debates with Nikol Pashinyan himself. Bagrat Mikoyan, the chief of staff of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, noted that a controversial topic is needed for debates. "And the fact that the surrender of the sovereign territories of Artsakh and Armenia is the personal of the current prime minister is an indisputable historical fact and obvious to all adequate people," he continued, recalling that in 2018-2024, all power in Armenia belonged to one person who decided to negotiate from his own - "zero point," and this person bears full responsibility for all events.
And the office of the third president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan noted that it is pointless to argue about the obvious, especially since the entire history of the negotiation process for the settlement of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict has been publicly and in detail a thousand times, both before and after the seizure of power. "Especially since the ruler of Armenia has done 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 (MG OSCE - Ed.): Russia, the USA and France, which 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," the office of the third president of the Republic noted.
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