Armenia will not be able to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with “Armenian arguments”, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said.
Hayastan faction MP Gegham Manukyan asked the PM during question time in parliament whether there’s any “Armenian argument” by which Nagorno-Karabakh couldn’t be part of Azerbaijan.
“Actually, your question gives your answer. This is typical to us all, regardless of being in opposition or the government. For so many years, we’ve used the term ‘Armenian argument’ and tried to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh issue within the framework of this term, not realizing that unfortunately it’s not with Armenian arguments that the NK issue is going to be resolved. There are international arguments and binding decisions on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. We believed that we’d be able to weaken, overcome and nullify it,” Pashinyan said.
He said that he himself was no less devoted to the Armenian arguments than the opposition.
“The problem is that with Armenian arguments we can’t and won’t be able to resolve any issue,” PM Pashinyan said. If that were to be possible, the present-day opposition would have done it in the past, he added.
Commenting on former President Robert Kocharyan’s statement that Armenia had to give hope to Azerbaijan in the negotiations process, that he would have resolved the issue without war, Pashinyan said his government was unable to give hope to Azerbaijan because the resource for doing so was exhausted. “When we came to power, it was already the time to realize the hopes you had given, this is the whole story,” Pashinyan told the opposition MP.
