It was a repulsive scene. If I hadn’t looked at the screen during the speech, I would’ve thought I was listening to Aliyev in the Milli Majlis.

The one who conducted negotiations from a so-called ‘own position’ was blindly reproducing the views and approaches of his 'polite' and 'civilized' partner Aliyev, learned directly from him, right from the podium of the Armenian National Assembly.

Perhaps he was excited about the upcoming meetings with Aliyev and Erdoğan — it felt like he was taking an exam on the lessons taught by them.

To exclude Artsakh from negotiations and distort the facts about the Istanbul Convention and the Madrid Principles requires one to at least hold pro-Turkish views. Only someone with such inclinations would manipulate these facts to please Turkey.

We will publish these facts once again to make these lies even more obvious.

By the way, Azerbaijan has explicitly rejected the Madrid Document, labeling it as strongly pro-Armenian.

The history of diplomacy does not notice short-lived falsehoods shouted aloud; what remains in that history are the glorious victories such as the Madrid and Istanbul documents — and, unfortunately, also the traitorous, already signed, or to-be-signed, and even verbally agreed tragic defeats."

Bagrat Mikoyan
Coordinator of the Office of the Second President of the Republic of Armenia