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Armenia’s former Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan, a senior member of the opposition Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), has reacted to the statement adopted following the trilateral talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Sochi on Monday.

He lambasted Pashinyan as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was not mentioned in the announcement.

“Nikol's another "achievement" is that Nagorno-Karabakh was left out of the statement. The area of deployment of the Russian peacekeeping contingent was referred to vaguely,” Zakaryan wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.

“What do you expect from this constantly degraded negotiator after he failed to include even the word “Nagorno-Karabakh” – the area of deployment of the Russian peacekeeping contingent – in the text of the statement?”

“The statement makes no mention of the de-occupation of Armenia’s sovereign territories or the release of prisoners, let alone the right of self-determination. There is no mention of sovereign control of communications. We can only guess what kind of "peace treaty" the incarnation of political evil intends to sign,” Zakaryan said.

The politician charged that Pashinyan “took another step towards new capitulation” in Sochi.