“Why didn’t you recognize the Republic of Artsakh when you were in power?” Artur Khachatryan says that the right to self-determination cannot be limited. Let’s go back. As a result of the referendum, the people of Nagorno-Karabakh voted in favor of declaring Nagorno-Karabakh an independent republic. Can we consider it an act of self-determination? Yes. Question: Why has Armenia not recognized the Act of Self-Determination of Nagorno-Karabakh?” asked NA Vice President Ruben Rubinyan, addressing the opposition during the discussion of the report on the implementation of the government’s program in 2022 at the extraordinary session of the National Assembly.
He emphasized that the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was not recognized under any RA government, and this is a fact. Then Rubinyan repeated Nikol Pashinyan’s thesis regarding the “Madrid principles,” that according to the “Madrid principles,” RA agreed that a new act of self-determination is needed, and Azerbaijan must agree. “I regret to say that RA, in the name of the government at that time, actually agreed to the restriction of the right of self-determination of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh,” said Ruben Rubinyan. He also asked the opposition: “If Armenia does not recognize Nagorno Karabakh as independent, then what does it recognize as?”
The extensive interview of the Third President, Serzh Sargsyan, regarding the “Madrid principles” is here.
The comment of former RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan is here.
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PS: Does Ruben Rubinyan forget that his political team also did not recognize the independence of Artsakh, while Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, on the first day of the war, 2020, on September 27, said from the NA podium that the issue of recognizing the Republic of Artsakh is on the agenda of the RA political power. “We must discuss this issue very seriously. Maybe a public discussion will start after this question-and-answer session.” And in the next month of the war, in October, he said that Armenia would recognize Karabakh if the analyses showed that it would help Karabakh and the solution to the issue.
Luiza Sukiasyan
