“We made every effort to prevent this depopulation from happening,” announced the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ararat Mirzoyan. According to him, the government tried to ensure that the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians remained in their historical cradle and were endowed with certain security guarantees. “In response, you will remember how you criticized our efforts to protect the rights of the NK people, even the wording, how they were criticized in the same NK, and what ambitions were expressed. And when we called for constructive negotiations, with what labeling were our calls rejected, and what happened in the end,” said Mirzoyan.
He said that Azerbaijan used military force, and the political elite of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was busy changing the government, sent a new person with power for a few days. “And he issued a decree on the dissolution of Nagorno-Karabakh. Do not direct the guilt of the processes you have chosen to our side,” he said, stressing that this conversation is not for one episode but for years. “At the moment when the RA government was calling to work towards ensuring the rights of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, you criticized that policy and this criticism of yours was heard ten times more in Stepanakert,” he said, addressing the deputy of the “Hayastan” faction, Anna Grigoryan.
“At the moment when we called to work towards the preservation of those rights, resolutions were adopted about various territories, and one more time, they dissolved the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. If you have questions and accusations, go and ask other people,” said Mirzoyan.
