Third president`s had clear and consistent approaches to the  Nagorno-Karabakh issue - opposition MP

ArmInfo. The third President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, unlike the current ruler, had clear and consistent approaches to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.  This is according to Tigran Abrahamyan, Secretary of the opposition  "I Have the Honor" faction of the National Assembly of the Republic  of Armenia.

"Although the negotiating package of the last three decades was  misrepresented, it provides a wealth of information not only about  the dynamics of progress in the negotiations but also about the  principles and positions of the country's leadership. During his  presidency, Pashinyan himself expressed three different positions on  the Artsakh settlement: first, he spoke of Artsakh's  self-determination, then of its incorporation into the Republic of  Armenia, and then of Artsakh's declaration of its inclusion in  Azerbaijan," the MP noted.

The opposition figure emphasized that the 2008-2018 package, which  not only enshrined the right to self- determination as a principle  but also provided for its implementation through a legally binding  national referendum (in 1988, 75% of Artsakh's population was  Armenian), has undergone certain stages of change.  "However, the  most striking thing is that there were clear 'red lines' and  principles that were not only not crossed but were defended by all  means necessary: the letter to the Russian president is one example  of this. And most importantly, Serzh Sargsyan's fundamental  approaches to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, unlike the current ruler,  were clear and unchanging," concluded Tigran Abrahamyan.

As a reminder, the Armenian government recently presented a number of  documents on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.  According to government officials, the right to self-determination  for Nagorno-Karabakh meant "self-government" within Azerbaijan.