Pashinyan admits that the second Karabakh war could have been avoided

The Karabakh war in the autumn of 2020 could not have happened if the Armenian side had agreed to consider the option of finding Karabakh within Azerbaijan during the negotiations. This was announced in Yerevan by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a meeting of the commission to investigate the circumstances of the war. He admits that the 44-day war could have been avoided, but the price would have been the rejection of the Armenian vision of the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

“Yerevan could then declare that it does not see Nagorno-Karabakh outside of Azerbaijan. But even this would not guarantee the prevention of hostilities. There were many controversial and unspecified issues in the negotiation process. For example, regarding the Lachin corridor, delimitation and demarcation within the framework of the peace treaty,” Pashinyan said.

As a result of the second Karabakh war, most of the region became under the control of Azerbaijan. The rest of the territory housed Russian peacekeeping troops.

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