That is a tube that Pashinyan is selling to the public: Robert Kocharyan

Theoretically, it is possible to achieve peace, but the format in which they are negotiating today is not peace. This was stated by the second President Robert Kocharyan during a press conference.

“One of the biggest mistakes is negotiating with Azerbaijan without mediators, and in fact, there will be no state or coalition of states guaranteeing those documents. In general, no document has ever restrained any war. To actually restrain a war, negotiations are needed, signed agreements are necessary, and guarantors are needed, especially since we are not in equal conditions today. The best guarantor is when you have a strong army and capabilities that already guarantee peace to a significant extent. In many cases, wars don’t start because the consequences for the initiator of the war can be severe. For stable peace, I see no factors; initially, there should not have been any negotiations, and the negotiation process should not have been brought to this point. They will bring a document, claim they have brought peace, and it doesn’t matter what the content of that document is; the people won’t even read it since we live by headlines, the information field is such. Nikol Pashinyan understands this brilliantly; that is his profession—his profession is not diplomacy, not peace, not war,” he said.

Regarding the concept of the “Peace Crossroads,” Kocharyan noted: “That is not even a crossroads; what he has drawn is a tube. In every crossroads, yes, there is a tube, he has drawn the tube but is selling it to the public as a crossroads. When you show a cut-out picture from that gesture, it’s one thing, but when you show it to people who understand something during official meetings, it raises the question: does this put us in the position of fools? That’s the perception. If this is propaganda, I can understand, but if you bring certain drawings to negotiations with serious countries, it’s unserious and disrespectful towards those people.”