"We are accused of not being able to avoid war. Were you avoiding 2016? You could not avoid it, you could stop the war based on the verbal promise to return the territories", the RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this in a video message.
"And we did not succeed in the same, as we were told that Armenia had promised to return the territories several times before, but did not return, now it can only be in writing and only by mentioning the time.
It was possible to stop the war only by signing a document like on November 9, before or at the beginning of the war, he said. "On the very first day of the war, I said from the tribune of the National Assembly that I could stop the war right now and at what cost, why didn't you make statements at that time that the war should be stopped?. It turns out that everyone was in favor of handing over the lands with the 5 + 2 formula .. Why didn't you hand it over in 2016, 2017? Why didn't you hand over and prevent the war then?", PM said.
Some people think that Azerbaijan would accept the 5 + 2 resolution easily and happily, but, according to Pashinyan, it still had to be discussed. "At the moment when Armenia agreed to some option, Azerbaijan would want more - Shushi, Lachin, etc. And I am amazed at some who, considering themselves great diplomats, do not understand these simple things", said the Prime Minister.
"We are accused of Turkey's involvement in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Turkey got involved in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as a result of football diplomacy, when after the failed diplomacy it announced that it would not establish relations with Armenia as long as the territories of Azerbaijan are occupied. This happened 10 years ago", said Nikol Pashinyan.