We’ve put a plan out to the public and we’ve stuck to that plan, and we’ve had times where sticking to the plan has brought us success and we’ve had times where it’s brought us a failure. The case of Nagorno-Karabakh is about that. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this today, on October 29, during the congress of the “Civil Contract” party at the sports and concert complex named after Karen Demirchyan.

“Why did it happen? Because we never thought that the Karabakh issue is an issue that we should use to stay in power or to solve an internal political issue. And, just as we have tried to reestablish the foundations of our statehood in the domestic political sense, in accordance with the program of the “Civil Contract” party, in the same way, we have gone after the Nagorno-Karabakh problem. Our biggest problem was to approach the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem within the framework of the foundation of our statehood,” said the Prime Minister.

Referring to the point of the founding program of the party regarding the Karabakh issue, Nikol Pashinyan said: “After I was elected prime minister, my primary efforts were aimed at restoring the status of NK negotiator, and here we remained faithful to our texts, but as a result, it turned out that all these stories are out of RA’s control because RA lost 30 years of negotiations, the full control over the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, and it turned out that RA no longer decides anything in that context and the only thing it can decide is to follow the decisions made elsewhere. Yes, if we made a mistake, that mistake is: we did not obey those decisions, but we did so not only in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, but because we understood that by doing so we would lose our sovereignty and statehood. We have understood that maybe the NK issue is not the whole story, the rest of the story refers to the independence, and the sovereignty of the Republic of Armenia, and I want to note that as in the founding documents of our party, the independence, and the sovereignty of the Republic of Armenia is the highest goal for us today, and today we must loudly and clearly declare and claim that under any circumstances we will not cede our statehood, sovereignty, and independence to anyone, and we are a party that must stand up for independence, sovereignty, and statehood,” announced the Prime Minister.