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Armenia’s third President Serzh Sargsyan has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of lying about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Pashinyan said in a recent televised interview that no document would have envisaged a settlement to the Karabakh conflict in the negotiation process. Moreover, a document drafted after 2016 stipulated Karabakh’s surrender to Azerbaijan and the dissolution of its state institutions.

"Pashinyan is lying, he is not a clairvoyant to predict the future," Sargsyan told reporters on Thursday, urging Pashinyan to publish a single document providing for the surrender of Nagorno-Karabakh.

"There are draft documents on the determination of Nagorno-Karabakh’s final status through the exercise of its people’s free will. Let him refute this and publish a document confirming his statements,” the ex-president argued.

He stated that no major changes took place in the negotiation process after the 2011 Kazan summit.

"After Kazan, regardless of the wording used, it was stipulated that the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh was to be determined by free expression of will," Sargsyan emphasized.