ANC vice-chair lashes out at premier over his statement  

ArmInfo. Under the first  President of Armenia Levon Ter- Petrosyan, Artsakh was liberated and, according to the decision of the 1994 OSCE Budapest Summit, mentioned by Pashinyan himself, acquired the status of a subject of international law, while during the period of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's rule, it was destroyed and de-Armenianized.

Thus, Deputy Chairman of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) Party Levon Zurabyan responded to Pashinyan's call for debates with former presidents of Armenia on the issue of settling the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict.

Zurabyan explained that Pashinyan is trying to create the illusion that his fight is connected with three presidents of Armenia, although in fact - he himself knows this very well - his real problem is in the court of history.

"Nikol wakes up every day with the stigma of the one who dug a grave for our five thousand soldiers and Artsakh, as well as the burden of the curse of generations on his neck. This stigma and curse will haunt him for the rest of his life, and in it he will have no other concern than hopeless attempts to cleanse himself and justify himself for the great sin committed against the Armenian people," the deputy chairman of the ANC wrote. 

At the same time, he noted that even if Pashinyan does not succeed in his planned debates, he realizes that the very fact of holding them is already a lifeline, creating the impression of having a subject for debate.  "Meanwhile, there is nothing to argue about. PR campaigns are powerless before the court of history," Zurabyan concluded.

Earlier, Nikol Pashinyan stated that since 1994, that is, after the  ceasefire, the negotiation process was conducted exclusively around the return of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. These statements by the Armenian Prime Minister were harshly reacted to in the offices of the RA presidents, under whom the negotiation process was taking place. In response to the criticism, Pashinyan invited the presidents to a  public debate on this issue. The offices of the three Armenian  presidents refused to hold a public debate, advising Pashinyan to look at the World Wide Web, where all the information about the progress and content of the negotiations around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has long been publicly available.  Pashinyan, however, did not calm down, calling on the former presidents of Armenia to take advantage of his proposal for a debate, or retire and stop commenting on his theses.