“What was needed to prevent the 44-day war? It required one thing — for the legitimacy of our vision for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue to align with the international legitimacy of that settlement, which was practically impossible,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says in a video posted on his Facebook page.
“Since the early 1990s, the legitimacy of our vision for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh issue and that of the international community had diverged, creating a gap between the two. Aligning these visions, while theoretically possible, was practically impossible, because the first step would have been to accept that Nagorno-Karabakh must be part of Azerbaijan. There was simply no other option.
If we believe that we could have done this in 2018–2019, then yes, it is my fault that I did not do it,” he noted.
