Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan proposed to reflect on the turning points in the history of the Karabakh issue in the 2020 war investigative commission.
According to the Prime Minister, one of the first milestones in the history of the process was the OSCE Lisbon Summit and the first President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, published on November 1, 1997, “War or Peace? The article “The Moment to get serious” discusses the need for compromises, “If we summarize Ter-Petrosyan’s words, it will turn out that it is impossible to maintain the status quo for a long time; let us not engage in self-deception and cherish vain hopes; we have no allies in Karabakh independence. Therefore, according to Ter-Petrosyan, we should focus on another issue so that Karabakh remains inhabited by Armenians in the coming millennium.”
According to the Prime Minister, parallel to all this, Ter-Petrosyan, in his article,e needs to clearly and verbatim answer the question of what status Nagorno Karabakh will have in the end. Will it be independent, within Armenia or Azerbaijan?
He noted that precisely one year before the article’s publication, Ter-Petrosyan participated in the presidential elections with the slogan “Victory, stability, progress.” Still, a year after the elections with questionable legitimacy, he talked about peace, not victory.
He also said that Ter-Petrosyan’s claim made in the article that only six people have expertise in the conflict settlement process in Karabakh and Armenia, “By and large, there were no secrets because all the secrets were formulated in public documents, which, however, were not directly accessible to the public at the time because there was no Internet and social networks then, but it was not that the public knew nothing about them.”
