On April 4, the third president not only confirmed, but also revealed that he constantly reprimanded the Artsakh authorities for “weakness” because “there were traffic jams in Lachin” during the days of combat operations. In fact, he says that during the four-day battles, the government of Artsakh did not show sufficient will and organizational qualities, a situation was created when the “movement” from Stepanakert to Armenia hindered the army. When asked what he said to the authorities of Artsakh, Serzh Sargsyan replied that he repeated what he said publicly: compromises should be made. Azerbaijan accepts the right of self-determination of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian sides that “those five regions are returned”.
After the April four-day battles, a representative meeting in Vienna was organized. It is difficult to say what in-depth discussions took place, but the public information was that it was proposed to introduce control mechanisms and measures to keep the situation under control at the contact line. Azerbaijan’s answer was one. it is possible “after the withdrawal of Armenian troops”. Finally, in 2018 in January, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group presented to the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan a proposal to increase the observation mission to seven people. They visited the region in February, but no practical agreement was reached.
Serzh Sargsyan says that the leadership of Artsakh asked him why they should hand over lands, and he replied that if they stay in that attitude, one day they can sing Stepanakert-Stepanakert in Yerevan. Why and with what “justifications” did Stepanakert reject the compromise option proposed by Serzh Sargsyan? It is a fact that after the April four-day event, Stepanakert took the initiative to adopt a new constitution. The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh officially became the Republic of Artsakh, Bako Sahakyan was granted the authority to serve a third term in the “transitional period”.
2017 In September, the National Assembly elected Bako Sahakyan as the President, in 2018 In April, a “velvet revolution” took place in Yerevan. In Stepanakert, the issue of power change was also put on the agenda, but Nikol Pashinyan declared that “the revolution should not reach Artsakh”. 2020 In February-March, when there were national elections in Artsakh, Pashinyan publicly addressed the candidates for the president of Artsakh, offering to present their ideas on the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh. To summarize, the answer was one. “Not an inch of ground to the enemy.” Four months later, war broke out. The consequences are known.
Eight years after the April four days, why does the third president, Serzh Sargsyan, break the covenant of silence on the subject of “Singing Stepanakert-Stepanakert” and confirm what Artsakh NA Speaker Artur Tovmasyan revealed after the forty-four day war? “If we leave here and say that we are not doing anything, a war may start on the weekend,” Nikol Pashinyan said about the “border demarcation” in Tavush.
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