PanARMENIAN.Net - Bagrat Mikoyan, head of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan's office, called it "nonsense" that the government published a non-negotiated article from Haykakan Zhamanak in place of the actual Key West document. His remarks were reported by Sputnik Armenia.
On December 2, the Armenian government released a collection of documents and correspondence relating to negotiations over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. However, the 2001 Key West document discussed during Kocharyan's presidency was not included. That proposal reportedly would have seen Nagorno-Karabakh transferred to Armenia, while Azerbaijan would have received sovereign transit rights through the Meghri region. Baku later rejected the arrangement.
Mikoyan emphasized that the last actual proposal, the 2019 package of recommendations from mediators, fully illustrates the situation: the prime minister, he said, rejected a document favorable to Armenia, leading to disaster.
Those proposals included provisions such as Armenian control over Karvachar and Lachin until a final status referendum for Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia's formal designation as guarantor of the region's security, a ban on Azerbaijani military presence in the five districts transferred to Baku, and a referendum on self-determination for the population of Nagorno-Karabakh with internationally recognized results.
"The Key West document is simply missing from the list. I want to draw public attention to the 2019 proposal that he rejected, which led to this catastrophe. But replacing that with a Haykakan Zhamanak article, reprinted at least twice, is nonsense. By this logic, tomorrow they might publish excerpts from Erdoan's book and call it a document, forcing it upon our state," Mikoyan said.
On November 12, the Armenian Prime Minister stated he was ready to publish documents once the OSCE Minsk Group officially disbanded. That process was concluded by the OSCE on December 1. The Prime Minister's opponents had long urged the release of negotiation records, arguing that none included terms recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Pashinyan, however, has maintained that all settlement proposals included that element.
Source: PanArmenian.Net
