"Hraparak" newspaper writes:
"According to official sources, by the summer, Armenia and Azerbaijan will submit a joint application regarding the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Although Nikol Pashinyan has stated several times that he agrees to the dissolution of the Minsk Group on the condition that the unfinished peace treaty is signed, but after Aliyev's aggressive statements at the beginning of the year, when there were open threats to open a corridor in Syunik by force, he caved in and hurriedly agreed to this next demand.
Moreover, the other day, Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan informed during her press conference that the government has set a problem to have the text of the new Constitution ready before the elections.
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Reform Council decided that the concept should be presented in December 2026. And this means that there should be a constitutional referendum in 2027.
It should be reminded that the OSCE Minsk Group has been the only format for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict since 1992.
Through the mediation of the three co-chair countries of the Minsk Group, Russia, the USA and France, a number of options for the settlement of the conflict were presented, in all of which Artsakh would have an independent or quasi-independent status.
Now, when Pashinyan convinces the public that the entire negotiation story was about handing over Karabakh, and when Artsakh does not exist and their homeland is less than 29 thousand square kilometers, then what is the need for this format?
In fact, the presence of the Minsk Group worries Azerbaijan, because as long as the Minsk Group exists, it means that there is also the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and the Artsakh problem.
The liquidation of the IC does not imply a special procedure, just the conflicting parties must write a joint application to the member states.
And that means that Nikol Pashinyan is single-handedly putting a big gravestone on the possibility of the Artsakh state and the people of Artsakh returning to Artsakh."
