Pashinyan stated that Armenia lost to war back in 1998

In 1996, the OSCE Lisbon Summit was held in 1996, which was put into appeal to the project, which mentioned that the Karabakh question should be settled in the framework of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. “Armenia uses its veto law, and the document is not accepted. This project becomes a statement by the OSCE leader. However, Karabakh continues to participate in the negotiations as a full-fledged independent side. In 1997, Robert Kocharian becomes Prime Minister of Armenia, and in the 1998 – president. And the first thing that happens is that Nagorno-Karabakh drops out of the negotiation process.

This means that the entire political result of the victory is destroyed in the first war. This is the biggest mine, laid under the negotiation process of the Karabakh issue. The last trilateral meeting on this issue in the format of Armenia-Nagorno-Karabakh-Azerbaijan was held in April 1997 in Moscow.

In fact, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairman takes a delegation in its capital, which includes a representative of Nagorno-Karabakh. In essence, it was the cornerstone of the possibility of international recognition of Karabakh. After the election of Kocharyan, no such meeting was no longer “,” Pashinyan said.

He recalled that during the visit to Hankendi in October 2009, this was stated by the French co-chairman Bernard Passy: “The participation of representatives of Karabakh was suspended by the decision of the Armenian side.”