
ArmInfo. The first President of Armenia Levon Ter- Petrosyan responded to the invitation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to participate in debates on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict process.
The first President of Armenia published the following text on his Facebook page:
And if, Nikol, you want the public to know the whole truth about the diplomatic process of settling the Karabakh issue, then here is a proposal: since after the fall of Artsakh the secrecy surrounding this process has lost its meaning, publish all the peace plans officially presented by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs (including those from June 2019) and the official responses of Armenian diplomacy to them.
Then it will truly be a debate based on facts. And if you don't do this, you will once again prove that you are running from the truth and cowardly trying to avoid historical responsibility>.
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. The offices of the RA presidents, under whom the negotiation process was taking place, reacted harshly to these statements by the Armenian prime minister. 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 and called on the former presidents of Armenia to take advantage of his proposal for debates, or to retire and stop commenting on his theses. We will add that independent experts have already laughed at these statements of the Armenian Prime Minister, asking a rather rhetorical question: "Why then was there a Karabakh movement to annex Artsakh to Armenia and a war, if immediately after the victorious war of the early 1990s, the Armenian authorities began negotiations on the transfer of the NKR to the Azerbaijani side." According to them, it turns out that for 30 years the Aliyev couple refused to take Artsakh.