Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has declared that he signed the Trilateral Statement to end the war in Nagorno Karabakh on the morning of November 9, 2020.
"On the morning of November 9, I signed that text. Mind you, not at midnight, but in the morning of November 8-9 I signed the text of the trilateral statement. However, it turned out that Azerbaijan doesn’t want to sign that text and would instead put forward a number of new demands. The culmination of the process was on the evening of November 9, when it became clear that Azerbaijan was practically making new additions to the agreed text. This meant that the text I had signed in the morning was no longer valid,” Pashinyan said in parliament on Tuesday, June 20.
According to him, he conducted all the negotiations through the Russian President Vladimir Putin. He said that on November 8 and 9 had about 20 telephone conversations with Putin, and about 60 telephone calls throughout the entire 44-day war.
"Very quickly it became clear that Azerbaijan was not going to accept Aghdam in return for Hadrut, and finally, as a result of discussions, we came to have a text that said nothing about Shushi, nothing about creating a corridor through the territory of Armenia. It was about the cessation of military operations, about the return of seven regions, the creation of Lachin Corridor, deployment of Russian peacekeepers there and in Nagorno-Karabakh," Pashinyan said.
