In an interview with the Public TV, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan mentioned that there were two circumstances due to which he did not address the public earlier. The first was the prospect of changing the situation, the second was the price of stopping the war.
"Look how painfully it is accepted by all of us now, that three territories must be returned, moreover, in a situation when, according to the assessment of both the General Staff and the Artsakh leadership, it was no longer possible to keep those territories. Or, it was possible to keep a part of Kelbajar, but the whole territory of Artsakh would be lost. The decision was made at a time when it was obvious that the struggle no longer made sense. There has never been such a situation before. Our army, the armed forces, the General Staff fought until the end, until the last day, the last second", said the Prime Minister.
When failures started on the front, the task was to make a breakthrough, for which everything possible was done. The decision was made when they realized that it was pointless to solve that problem.
"What is the point where we have registered it?. That point is the fall of Shushi. In all possible scenarios to stop the war before Shushi, Shushi had to be surrendered without a fight. I have mentioned that we cannot hand over Shushi, it has a special significance to us", said the Prime Minister.
According to the Prime Minister, the only definite point in the negotiations that lasted 25 years was the handover of 7 regions, the other points were uncertain. "And very often, both before and now, the logic of the so-called "scenario war" has been discussed. But the peculiarity of it is - that war, at least from the Armenian side, was not aimed at implementing that scenario, but at resisting it", said the Prime Minister.
