If There Is Extreme Necessity, I Will Do It: Serzh Sargsyan on Disclosing Documents Regarding Nagorno-Karabakh

Yes, I have all the documents in my possession, all the proposals from the co-chairs, but I do not consider it correct to disclose them without coordinating with them. If there is extreme necessity, I will do it. However, since he has experience in this, I would suggest that he publish it himself. This was stated by former President Serzh Sargsyan in his interview.

The third President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, also labeled Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that he is fully in command of all information regarding the negotiation process as a "blatant lie." He remarked, "It’s a lie because it is impossible to read the documents and be fully aware of the negotiation process; it is impossible to do this just by reading the documents. Even I cannot say that I am completely aware of all the details because, apart from the fact that I was negotiating, there was also Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan, who was preparing the negotiations."

Serzh Sargsyan stated that he and Edward Nalbandyan were discussing issues not for hours or days but for months and years, considering the interests of those who were well aware of all previous stages. According to him, if Nikol Pashinyan arrogantly claims that he possesses complete information, then how did it happen that they "fell into a trap" in 2019 when a new document was proposed, and the government accepted it as a basis for negotiations, misleading not only the Armenian society but also others by stating that there was no negotiation process for an entire year?

"We were sounding the alarm, saying that negotiations were taking place, that there were new proposals, because if there weren’t any, then what was the Foreign Minister talking about for hours with his counterpart, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister? In the end, they disgraced themselves, didn’t they, when Lavrov disclosed this process to the entire world?" noted Serzh Sargsyan.