Former State Revenue Committee chairman David Ananyan, commenting on the agreements signed in Washington between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the United States, wrote on his Facebook page that there is a clear danger these signatures could “absolve Aliyev’s crimes.”
“The promoters of the so-called ‘triumph’ of the Washington agreements, as well as the loud but empty critics of those opposing them, must first clearly acknowledge the following facts.
Azerbaijan used weapons banned under international law, including phosphorus bombs, during the 44-day war.
Throughout the war, Azerbaijan deployed mercenary terrorists to reinforce its frontlines.
Ilham Aliyev is a dictator guilty of crimes against humanity, who carried out genocidal acts against the indigenous people of Artsakh by forcibly displacing them from their historical homeland in September 2023.
Azerbaijan has occupied parts of Armenia’s sovereign territory — in some cases through direct military invasion, in others under the pretext of ‘demarcation’ and ‘delimitation.’
Azerbaijan holds the political and military leadership of Artsakh in captivity, subjecting them to sham and predetermined trials.
Azerbaijan has succeeded in eliminating the right of Artsakh Armenians to return to their homeland and even the possibility of negotiating over it, nullifying supposed mechanisms of international guarantees.
Azerbaijan and Turkey openly declare that Syunik belongs to them, that Armenia is ‘Western Azerbaijan,’ and that around 300,000 Azerbaijanis must ‘return’ to Armenia, while Armenia should amend its Constitution to accommodate these plans.
These are facts that do not disappear with the signing of the Washington documents. Therefore, those in a state of euphoria and proclaiming ‘triumph’ must be asked: which of the above issues do these documents actually resolve?
In reality, the danger is obvious — with these signatures we are not solving these problems but cleansing Aliyev’s crimes, losing both the legal and political grounds to bring international claims over them,” Ananyan wrote.
On August 8, at the White House, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint Declaration on the results of the Washington meeting.
In Washington, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, in the presence of the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the United States, initialed the “Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.”
