Tigran Abrahamian: "If there is a person in Armenia who does not want peace, it is Nikol Pashinyan."
Secretary of the Strong Armenia faction Tigran Abrahamian believes that the lack of progress in signing a peace agreement with Azerbaijan is mainly due to the personality of the negotiator, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. According to him, Baku sees the willingness of the Prime Minister of Armenia to make new concessions and takes advantage of this by presenting new demands. In the interview, the deputy explains why, in his opinion, the problem is not in the constitution, but in the negotiations themselves.
- You say that the lack of progress in the peace process is related to the personality of the negotiator. What exactly do you see as a problem?
- Nikol Pashinyan pursues a policy of concessions without peace. If there is a person in Armenia today who does not want peace, it is Nikol Pashinyan. Azerbaijan sees that it can extract new concessions from it, and goes the way of presenting new demands without signing peace. Armenia has already given up everything it could. This is directly related to the second point in the statement of the united political forces around the national agenda - the need for peace without concessions.
- But how can we get a peace agreement signed without changing the Armenian constitution, which is what Baku insists on?
- The problem lies in the negotiations. Mistakes in the negotiation process have already led to three wars. At the same time, the peace agreement previously concluded with the participation of the United States does not contain a requirement to change the Armenian constitution. Moreover, the document contains a provision according to which none of the parties can refer to its internal legislation.
- What does that actually mean?
"This means that there is no requirement in the agreement that Armenia must change its constitution. The very signing of the agreement excludes such references from both Azerbaijan and Armenia. That is, the question of the constitution is an artificially derived issue, and not a real obstacle.
- What then prevents signing if the document has already been agreed upon?