Pashinyan posted an article on the official website of the PM of Armenia about the reasons of the war in Karabakh: In a nutshell, the article puts blame on Russia, says the former Presidents did nothing, the current government is the only one who tried [but didn't succeed].
Link to article: primeminister.am/hy/interviews-…
1. Starting from 1995 until 2018, when a change of power took place in Armenia, the logic of the negotiations around Karabakh was reduced to the surrendering of territories to Azerbaijan.
2. There was no talk of any concessions from Baku: the Azerbaijani authorities said that they would not agree to any status of Karabakh outside of the territory of Baku.
3. Pashinyan considers Russia to be a key factor, which has been facing serious geopolitical problems since 2014 in Syria, Crimea, Donbass.
4. Then there were the well-known Russian proposals, which asked for the surrender of 5+2 regions, the return of refugees and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers. The package of proposals did not in any way touch upon the issue of Karabakh's status.
5. The only success of the Armenian side during the 23-year negotiation process was [winning] time.
6. Over the years of the negotiation process, a gradual ousting of Karabakh from the negotiation process took place, only the current government tried to raise the issue of returning the Artsakh authorities to the negotiating table.
7. The current government made an attempt to withdraw the primitive logic of return of territories as the main criteria for negotiations.
(It's spun in such a way that for a moment I thought it's written by someone different than the Prime Minister of Armenia who signed capitulation two months ago. It is beyond logic how Pashinyan does not want to take any blame.)
(He portrays himself not as the leader of Armenia who lost Artsakh, but the one who tried to bring Artsakh to the negotiating table, and by the one who refused to hand the 5+2 territories. The situation on the ground though, is severely different.)
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