The head of the Armenian government Nikol Pashinyan accused the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs of 'pro-Azerbaijani position,' Eurasia Diary reports citing Azeri Daily.
Nikol Pashinyan made an excursion into history, testifying to the success of the Azerbaijani diplomacy in the negotiation process: 'In 2018, after our coming to power, we inherited the negotiation process on the Karabakh settlement in a deadlock. The problem is that the mediators of the OSCE Minsk Group (Russia , France, the United States) expressed the same position on the Karabakh settlement as Azerbaijan. But it is important to record that this position was formed not in 2018, but much earlier,' Pashinyan said as part of the election campaign in the city of Spitak.
In January 2016, the mediators put forward a condition for Armenia to abandon the idea of an intermediate status for Nagorno-Karabakh.
'The question was posed as follows - there were formulas "territories in exchange for status", "territories in exchange for peace", and from 2016 to 2018 the formula "territories in exchange for nothing" was formulated. In 2018, we inherited the negotiation process exactly according to this formula. The mediators and the international community, on whom we hoped, set before us the task of returning the territories,' said Pashinyan.