Video: What is Kocharian Doing After Becoming President of Armenia? - Pashinyan

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has addressed the international community's perception regarding the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and the exclusion of Karabakh from the negotiation process. According to him, four of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the OSCE Minsk Group countries have expressed that Nagorno-Karabakh could obtain high autonomy within Azerbaijan.

He also noted that the exclusion of Karabakh from the negotiation process was initiated by Robert Kocharian. This has been corroborated by the French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Bernard Fassier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and even by Robert Kocharian himself during a response to questions from readers of 'Golos Armenii' on April 3, 2004.

“The fact that at the moment Robert Kocharian became president, Nagorno-Karabakh was a full participant in the negotiations, is proven by the fact that the package for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, so-called common state package, was presented by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs not only to Armenia and Azerbaijan in November 1998 but also to Nagorno-Karabakh. At that time, Kocharian had already been president of Armenia for five months. However, this was the last package presented to Nagorno-Karabakh by the co-chairs, after which no package was presented to Karabakh, and Nagorno-Karabakh has, in fact, not even been properly informed about what the negotiations are about,” he stated.

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