Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced at the April 27 government session. “Every day, a wider international presence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin Corridor becomes increasingly necessary. Azerbaijan’s efforts to turn Nagorno-Karabakh into a new slaughterhouse for Armenians must be stopped, and the only reliable way to do this is the presence of representatives with a broad international mandate in Nagorno-Karabakh. As a first step, it is necessary to send an urgent international fact-finding mission to Lachin Corridor and Nagorno-Karabakh.”
No international actors responded to the proposal. Instead, official Baku criticized that Yerevan has no right to talk about whether to invite the international peacekeeping mission to the territory of Azerbaijan. Avetik Chalabyan, the guest of Aravot’s “Areresum” (“Confrontation”) program and a member of the board of the «Consolidation” movement, assessed whether broader international representation could become a solution to the problem in this case and said: “Theoretically, it can. Let me explain why this theory probably won’t work in the real world. Theoretically, it is possible if the UN Security Council adopts a relevant resolution, which will be binding for Azerbaijan and Armenia, and let’s assume a peacekeeping mission will be sent to the region. It is possible, in theory, but in reality, why won’t it happen? Five members of the UN Security Council have the right to veto, and the interests of those five members, also in our region, are in direct conflict. It is impossible to imagine a resolution to which the USA, Britain, and Russia will vote. They are enemies today, and their enmity has reached its peak.” He added: “It is unrealistic to imagine that the UN Security Council will adopt such a resolution. That’s why what Pashinyan says is bubbles, bluff.”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan announced that the Azerbaijani side offered to introduce a transparent control regime on the Lachin road, Armenia refused the offer of parallel control and Azerbaijan started to control the corridor alone. “Armenia has never prepared and is not going to be involved in the negotiations on the new settlement regarding the regime of the Lachine Corridor,” Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said in particular. There have been public demands (or proposals, it is difficult to differentiate) from the Azerbaijani side regarding the border posts in the Lachin Corridor. I repeat what I said, and we will not get involved in discussing those proposals.”
The other program guest, deputy of the “Armenia” faction Andranik Tevanyan, assessed this as another manifestation of the “washing one’s hands” policy concerning Artsakh. “They will not negotiate on the issue of the Lachin Corridor because they are not interested in that issue; they have washed their hands, put the issue in the “pocket” of the Russians, in the vernacular, and say that we are not responsible for it.”
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One year ago, in 2022, on April 13, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced in the National Assembly. “Today, the international community tells us again: lower your bar a little on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, and you will ensure a great international consolidation around Armenia and Artsakh.”
Analysts note that the promised exclusive international consolidation was only expressed in statements and appeals, which Azerbaijan despises. Avetik Chalabyan said, in response to the question, does he see the promised international consolidation after the lowering of the bar. “Pashinyan is the biggest liar in our history. He constantly makes statements that he cancels after literally half a year. You understand, don’t you, that what is happening now is not lowering the bar, but the bar is reset to zero; there are no talks about the status of Artsakh at all.”
“Karabakh for Armenia is now a tooth with a removed nerve” writes Kirill Krivosheev in “Removal of a Nerve” published on the Carnegie Foundation’s website. What does Armenia’s final rejection of Karabakh mean in the article? Answering the question, “What awaits the Armenians of Karabakh?” Kirill Krivosheev made a pessimistic prediction, citing mass emigration as the most realistic option. Andranik Tevanyan specifically said in this regard. “To be honest, he still presented an optimistic scenario. Mass emigration can happen not only and not so much from Karabakh, but from all of Armenia.
We talked about lying here: the same lie applies to the pre-election program for the 2021 elections. You wrote there, Nikol Pashinyan, that you will defend the right to self-determination, and even Shushi and Hadrut should be back…”
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Anna ISRAYELYAN
