
ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gave assurances that he said nothing during the negotiations with Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that contradicted his public statements.
"All my positions have been publicly stated. You have been familiar with my positions since 2018, and you are familiar with their changes. From that day until today, I have never said anything in any negotiating room that contradicts my publicly stated positions," Pashinyan said in a conversation with journalists on November 12, commenting on recent statements by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov.
As a reminder, Bayramov stated in an interview that the first contact between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after he came to power took place in September 2018 in Dushanbe. According to him, Nikol Pashinyan's position at the time was quite constructive: he said, "I just came to power and will take the necessary steps to resolve the conflict."
Jeyhun Bayramov added that some time after that meeting, Pashinyan changed his position: "He even stated that if he took steps to resolve the conflict, he would be killed. He said, 'Do you want me killed?'" Mr. President responded by noting that we do not wish death on anyone.
Later, in 2019, according to the head of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Pashinyan uttered the phrase, "Karabakh is Armenia, period." And on July 10, 2020, a new national security concept for Armenia was prepared, which included consolidating the results of the First Karabakh War, which marked a "red line" being crossed. "Later, a statement was made that Azerbaijan should negotiate with members of the so- called 'Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.'" This meant the complete destruction of the entire negotiation system that had existed up to that time," emphasized Jeyhun Bayramov.