“We have completely lost Artsakh. There is no Armenian control in Artsakh; part of Artsakh is controlled by Azerbaijan, the other part is under Russian control. Azerbaijan did not win the Artsakh war. The wars end in the capital. Azerbaijan has not reached Stepanakert, but Artsakh is now a Russian territory where Armenians live,” the former Armenian ambassador to Poland, Edgar Ghazaryan, said on November 19 during a hearing on “The Surrender of Artsakh and Syunik is the Destruction of Armenia” organized by the committee “In Defense of the Republic of Artsakh.”
The former Armenian ambassador to Poland, Edgar Ghazaryan
According to him, the situation in Azerbaijan is not better now than in Armenia, it’s just that there is more sensitivity and pathos in that country now. As for the construction of the Fizuli airport, etc., he considered it a pointless propaganda expense that has no political or economic significance. Edgar Ghazaryan considered the situation in Armenia explosive. He was referring to the possibility of a corridor provided to Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan via Armenia, which the current government is trying to implement. Edgar Ghazaryan said that the idea of linking Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan was not discussed during the whole Artsakh conflict and stated that it appeared after the signing of the November 9 statement.
The Armenian side has not clarified what the end of the war in Artsakh had to do with the question of connecting Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan, or how the interstate road built in 1964 could be handed over to Azerbaijan, which does not connect Azerbaijani settlements and 9 million Azeris will not use that road because they have nowhere to go.
He also clarified that any border should be crossed by security lines and spoke of Nikol Pashinyan’s statement in the parliament that he had ordered the withdrawal of troops, which Varsharshak Harutyunyan carried, while the November 9 capitulation agreement stated that troops should remain in the positions where they were at that moment. Edgar Ghazaryan said that the state-level anti-Russian hysteria in Armenia should be stopped. He is convinced that a normal negotiator can rectify the situation by bringing relations with Russia back to normal.
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