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Opposition politician Eduard Sharmazanov, a senior member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), lambasted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s “futile attempts to absolve himself of blame for” the fall of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

Pashinyan stated on Monday that all peace plans drafted by the mediators from 1994 onwards were about “the return of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan”. He said that his “big mistake” was not to make it clear to the Armenian people after coming to power in 2018. Pashinyan also challenged the three former Armenian presidents to a televised debate on the matter, but the latter rejected the proposal.

Former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan dismissed Pashinyan’s “lies” on the Artsakh negotiations and urged him to publicize all the peace plans drafted by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.

In a social media post on Friday, Sharmazanov recalled that back in April 2022, Armenia's third President Serzh Sargsyan also insisted on Pashinyan’s disclose of the 2019 settlement plans for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict proposed by the international mediators.

“Two and a half years have passed, but Pashinyan has not publicized a single document. Instead, he gives rambling speeches filled with incoherent rants. He would have disclosed the document if he truly wanted to,” he wrote.