"Today, Nikol Pashinyan once again tried to mislead the Armenian people, claiming that since 1994, that is, after the ceasefire, the negotiation process has been about returning Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan."wroteMP Artur Khachatryan of the National Assembly "Armenia" faction, referring to Nikol Pashinyan's post today.
"He is lying again. This claim is an absolute lie. Pashinyan himself, during his "big press conference" held in Kapan on January 25, 2020, refers to a document presented to the conflict parties in January 2018, which is commonly called the "Krakow draft".
According to that document, "Determining the final legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh through a general vote, which is a free expression of the entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh, under the auspices of the United Nations or the OSCE, within the terms agreed between the parties, which will be legally binding and comply with the norms and principles of international law, bearing in mind that the voting The question or questions should not be limited and may include all options related to status."
Note that all status options are ALL. He read this himself, not me. These are his words, his quote about the negotiation process he inherited, about the settlement proposal. He refused, went to separate secret negotiations with Aliyev and we have what we have: Let's leave the document and turn to simple logic.
If the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh agreed that Artsakh should be part of Azerbaijan, what were they negotiating from 1996 to 2018?
Azerbaijan, where he used to sit down and get up, offered Artsakh "the highest degree of autonomy". If the Armenian parties agreed to it, why was no peace agreement signed? There is only one justification, Pashinyan is lying. After the overthrow of Levon Ter-Petrosyan in Lisbon, in 1998, there was no offer of Armenian autonomy in Azerbaijan. In 2001, Nagorno Karabakh and Lachin region passed to Armenia in front of the Meghri corridor/road (which would not hinder communication with Iran, unlike their "peace intersection").
And finally, the Fundamental or "Madrid" principles developed in 2006 assumed that the people of Artsakh would get the right to decide their political fate by voting. And that right was not limited by anything, the paper quoted by the witness Pashinyan. He came and destroyed the entire negotiation process.
Even the settlement imposed on Ter-Petrosyan was better than what we have today. Today, under Pashinyan, the Turks are in Artsakh. That is the consequence of his activity.
And let him not try to justify this crime by distorting the history, blaming the person who fought for the motherland..."
