Armenia`s premier sacrificed Artsakh to change Armenia`s strategic  orientation - politician 

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan deliberately sacrificed Artsakh not so much for the sake of achieving peace, but for the sake of creating a basis  for changing Armenia's strategic orientation. This was written on his  Telegram channel by the chairman of the Democratic Alternative party  Suren Surenyants.

Meanwhile, according to Suren Surenyants, this statement by the  Foreign Ministry, which is a typical Pashinyan's manner of shifting  the blame for the failure of his own policy onto others, is  manipulative.  "The reality is that the Nagorno-Karabakh issue as a  conflict was closed by Nikol Pashinyan on October 6, 2022, when,  within the framework of the quadripartite statement in Prague, he  recognized Nagorno- Karabakh as part of a united Azerbaijan. It was  as a result of this statement that the Nagorno-Karabakh issue was  removed from the agenda of the settlement of interstate relations  between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan," the  politician emphasized.

According to him, the country's authorities are attempting to place  responsibility for the destruction of Artsakh and ignoring the  Nagorno-Karabakh issue in the peace agreement on the leadership of  Nagorno- Karabakh. As evidence, the politician cited a statement by  the RA Foreign Ministry, which stated that "Armenia worked in  negotiations with Azerbaijan to ensure the security and rights of the  Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the creation of an  international mechanism to resolve these issues. The same goal was  pursued during the organization of meetings of representatives of  Azerbaijan and Nagorno- Karabakh in third countries, which were  rejected by Nagorno-Karabakh." "After the publication of the decree  on the forced deportation of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and  the liquidation of Nagorno- Karabakh, this issue was removed from the  agenda of the settlement of interstate relations between the Republic  of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan," the Armenian Foreign  Ministry noted.