Armenian premier accuses three Armenian presidents of what Armenian  people accuse him - RPA vice- chair

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accuses Armenia's first three presidents of what the Armenian people accuse him of. Deputy Chairman of the  Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Armen Ashotyan stated this in a  video message on Facebook, addressing the Armenian prime minister's  statements that Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Serzh  Sargsyan handled the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks poorly.

Ashotyan expressed his conviction that, with his actions, the  Armenian prime minister merely proves that he serves foreign  interests and manipulates public opinion-either through criminal  inaction or, conversely, through actions that harm the state.

To support his claims, the RPA Deputy Chairman recalled that it was  Nikol Pashinyan who, from the podium of the Armenian parliament,  called the 2011 Kazan Document, prepared during Serzh Sargsyan's  presidency, the best negotiating option. "As for the accusations that  these processes were artificially delayed, I note that history has  numerous examples of states resolving similar issues over 80 years,  for example, the Palestinian-Israeli issue. All three Armenian  presidents, each in turn, advanced the negotiation process by  strengthening the army and strengthening Armenia's position at the  negotiating table. These are the very positions that Nikol Pashinyan  later abandoned," Ashotyan concluded.

As a reminder, the Kazan Document was proposed in 2011 at the Kazan  Summit. Meeting in Kazan under the mediation of then-Russian  President Dmitry Medvedev, the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia,  Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan, reviewed a draft "roadmap" for a  long-term settlement of the Karabakh conflict. It envisaged the  transfer to Baku of the buffer territories around Nagorno-Karabakh  captured by Armenia during the 1992-1994 war (the Jabrayil, Zangilan,  Kubatly, Kelbajar, parts of the Fizuli and Aghdam districts, plus 13  villages in the Lachin district), as well as the creation of a  corridor in the Lachin district linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.  The status of Nagorno-Karabakh, which remained a stumbling block, was  planned to be determined in a referendum several years later.  However, at the last minute, Azerbaijan refused to sign the document.