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Opposition Hayastan bloc MP Seyran Ohanyan on Tuesday blamed Armenia’s ruling team for the failure of the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks as he visited the Yerablur Military Pantheon on the second anniversary of the 44-day war in Artsakh.

His comments came after first President Levon Ter Petrosyan’s latest statement on the “painful solutions” facing Armenia in the conflict with Azerbaijan.

“All solutions will be bad for us, so we should try to choose the least painful one,” he told the Public TV Company in an interview.

“Those who came to power failed at everything, including the peace process. Thirty years of painstaking efforts helped build some negotiating capacity, which could have been used to push ahead the process, but it was not done. This failure led to war and casualties," the lawmaker said.

Ohanyan, who formerly served as Armenia’s defense minister, claimed that most of the 2020 war casualties could have been avoided if the “state had supported the army”, ensured security and equipped the positions with engineering and defensive facilities”.

"Second, we could have had more casualties, but had a victory at least. It’s painful that we lost in the face of so many casualties. After the defeat and the capitulation, the incumbent authorities utterly failed in foreign policy, defense, army building and public administration,” the MP said.

Ohanyan insisted that the incumbent authorities “are under pressure and coercion”, stressing the need for a regime change to get the country out of the current situation.