Pashinyan on his "mistake" and whether Yerevan could have prevented  the 44-day war

ArmInfo.  "How We Could Have Prevented the 44-Day War: My Mistake." This is how Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan titled his Facebook video address, in response to remarks made by the third President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan.

"What was needed to prevent the 44-day war? One thing was needed: for  us to align the legitimacy of the Karabakh settlement, as we see it,   with international legitimacy," he said. According to the Prime  Minister, this was impossible in practice, because Armenia's  understanding of the legitimacy of the Karabakh settlement had  diverged from international views since the early 1990s, creating a  gap between them.

"In theory it was possible to align our views, but in practice, it  was extremely challenging, because as a first step, we would have had  to recognize that Karabakh should be part of Azerbaijan. There was  simply no other option. If we believe we could have done this in  2018-2019, then yes, I made a mistake by not doing so," Pashinyan  said.