"This is why it is worth judging me" - Pashinyan

Agnesa Khamosyan, a member of the "Armenia" parliamentary faction, reminded that the head of the executive had announced that he would start from his own points in the negotiations and that it was only after the war that it became clear that there had been a document on the negotiation table in 2019, but the subtleties of the negotiation process were hidden. She addressed Pashinyan: "You have been in power for 5 years, but you have talked 500 times more about the documents negotiated by the previous authorities than about what you have negotiated."

Khamosyan declared that any document negotiated during the time of the previous three governments would have been much better than the current realities had it been implemented. Pashinyan agreed that he had not said anything about the document he negotiated because he has not yet managed to negotiate. "I have not negotiated anything for a document to appear on the table. The document presented on the table in the summer of 2019 is a summary of the results of negotiations before me and a summary of the situation when Serzh Sargsyan made a famous statement from this podium," Pashinyan responded.

The Prime Minister stated that today he speaks about what he said in March 2019 at the joint meeting of the Security Councils of Artsakh and Armenia, with a different logic and vocabulary. "And at that time, my attitude towards the right to self-determination has not changed, but I have read and seen what it is about. The concept of the right to self-determination that was set out in 2007 is that until Artsakh is not recognized as part of Azerbaijan, the right to self-determination cannot be realized with the agreements you have reached," Pashinyan said.

Referring to his statements about the zero point, Nikol Pashinyan said that in the same speech in March 2019, he publicly proposed to understand what the Madrid principles are and whether under those principles Artsakh could self-determine. "I have publicly spoken about this, after which I received an answer: yes, if Azerbaijan agrees. This is the zero point," said the Prime Minister, adding that his mistake was that he should have shown those negotiating papers at that time and said that they had reached that point, that there was no other option. "This is why it is worth judging me, that I did not come out, say that this game is over. That is my mistake," the Prime Minister emphasized.