No one can close Artsakh issue as long as Artsakh people live - ARF

ArmInfo. As long as there are people of Artsakh who want to return to their home, the Artsakh issue remains on the agenda, and the protection of the rights of Artsakh  Armenians remains the responsibility of the Armenian people. This was  written on his Facebook page by MP from the opposition faction  "Armenia" Ishkhan Saghatelyan, reacting to the statement of the  Armenian Foreign Ministry on the Artsakh issue.

Saghatelyan drew attention to the fact that the subject that  regularly refers to a document that has no legal force and was signed  in Artsakh in September 2023 is not the Azerbaijani authorities, but  representatives of the regime of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan. According to him, this time such statements come from the  Armenian Foreign Ministry.

At the same time, the Dashnaktsakan believes that such statements are  aimed at publicly agreeing with another demand of Azerbaijan  regarding the closure of the Artsakh issue. In addition, Saghatelyan  believes that such statements are necessary to remove responsibility  for the surrender of Artsakh from Nikol Pashinyan and try to shift it  onto all possible participants, including the Artsakh Armenians  abandoned to their fate and their legal representative.

"Even Aliyev does not refer to the illegal document on the  dissolution of state bodies of Artsakh in the issues of the  occupation of Artsakh. Therefore, the efforts of Aliyev's Armenian  lawyers are in vain," the oppositionist emphasized.

At the same time, Saghatelyan expressed confidence that the current  government in Armenia will not be able to rewrite history, noting  that it was Nikol Pashinyan's actions and statements that caused the  current situation.

"This is a responsibility that cannot be avoided. No one can close  the Artsakh issue. As long as there are people of Artsakh who want to  return to their home, there is also the Artsakh issue, and protecting  the rights of Artsakh Armenians is our responsibility," Saghatelyan  summarized.

On April 2, a meeting was held between Azerbaijani President Ilham  Aliyev and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. At a joint  press conference, Aliyev stated that "the main obstacle in the  negotiations was Armenia's desire to include the fate of the  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in the peace treaty by January 2024." In  response to a request from Radio Liberty to comment on these words,  the Armenian Foreign Ministry stated that "in negotiations with  Azerbaijan, Armenia worked to ensure the security and rights of the  Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, including the creation of  an international mechanism to resolve these problems. After the  publication of the decree on the forced displacement of Armenians of  the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the liquidation of Artsakh, this  problem was removed from the agenda of the settlement of interstate  relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan."