Nikol Pashinyan surrendered Karabakh in two stages - ex-president of Armenia

The Armenian authorities surrendered Nagorno-Karabakh in two stages. This was stated by former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan during a press conference on Monday.

“The surrender of Karabakh took place in two stages. The first stage - 2018-2020 before the war, the second - from 2020 to September 2023,” Kocharyan said.

According to him, after coming to power, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ignored a rather interesting proposal of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in 2019, which was acceptable to the Armenian side, saying he was starting the negotiations from zero point.

“In fact, he said to the co-chairs - who are you, what have you been doing for the last 25 years? I am the 'hero from the movie' - what I want to negotiate about, I will negotiate about,” Kocharyan said.

In fact, this brought the negotiation process to a deadlock. After that, the Prime Minister said that “Artsakh is Armenia, and that's all”. And if it is, what else is there to negotiate about.

In Kocharyan's opinion, this was a de facto call for war.

“Before the war, the impression was that he was the leader who favored the thesis “not an inch of land” more than anyone else. In 2018-2020, it seemed to the prime minister that he is a 'Caucasian Rimbaud' and can do whatever he wants,” Kocharyan noted.

After the defeat in the war, Pashinyan, according to the former president, turned into a “geopolitical Hikor” (the hero of Hovhannes Tumanyan's story, ed.).

The reason for all this, according to Robert Kocharyan, is Pashinyan's arrogance, inability to count on two or three steps forward and adventurism.

The Armenian authorities surrendered Nagorno-Karabakh in two stages. This was stated by former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan during a press conference on Monday.

“The surrender of Karabakh took place in two stages. The first stage - 2018-2020 before the war, the second - from 2020 to September 2023,” Kocharyan said.

According to him, after coming to power, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ignored a rather interesting proposal of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in 2019, which was acceptable to the Armenian side, saying he was starting the negotiations from zero point.

“In fact, he said to the co-chairs - who are you, what have you been doing for the last 25 years? I am the 'hero from the movie' - what I want to negotiate about, I will negotiate about,” Kocharyan said.

In fact, this brought the negotiation process to a deadlock. After that, the Prime Minister said that “Artsakh is Armenia, and that's all”. And if it is, what else is there to negotiate about.

In Kocharyan's opinion, this was a de facto call for war.

“Before the war, the impression was that he was the leader who favored the thesis “not an inch of land” more than anyone else. In 2018-2020, it seemed to the prime minister that he is a 'Caucasian Rimbaud' and can do whatever he wants,” Kocharyan noted.

After the defeat in the war, Pashinyan, according to the former president, turned into a “geopolitical Hikor” (the hero of Hovhannes Tumanyan's story, ed.).

The reason for all this, according to Robert Kocharyan, is Pashinyan's arrogance, inability to count on two or three steps forward and adventurism.

The Azerbaijani troops' offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh with large-scale use of aviation, armored vehicles, artillery, and attack UAVs began in the morning of September 27, 2020. According to official data, 3,822 servicemen and 75 civilians were killed on the Armenian side in the 44-day war. Another 201 people are missing. On November 9, the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan - Nikol Pashinyan, Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev, signed a statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. Seven districts (Jabrail, Zangelan, Kubatli, Fizuli, Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin), as well as Hadrut district, Shushi city and a number of settlements in Askeran, Martakert, Martuni, Shahumyan and Kashatagh districts came under Azerbaijani control.

Three years later, after a nine-month blockade, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched a new aggression, forcing the entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh to leave their homes.

Reprinted from https://am.sputniknews.ru/