Why Kocharian Excluded Artsakh from Negotiations: A Detailed Explanation by Pashinyan

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addressed the international community's perception regarding the status of Nagorno-Karabakh and the exclusion of Artsakh 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 stated that Nagorno-Karabakh could achieve high autonomy within Azerbaijan.

He also pointed out that the exclusion of Artsakh from the negotiation process was initiated by Robert Kocharian. This was 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 Kocharian himself, who said this during a Q&A session with readers of the 'Golos Armenii' newspaper on April 3, 2004.

Pashinyan stated, “What did Robert Kocharian do after becoming the acting president and then the president of Armenia? He deprived Nagorno-Karabakh of its status as a participant in the negotiations, meaning that after Kocharian became the president of Armenia, representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh no longer participated in the negotiations, whereas they did so fully before that.”

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