Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan commented on the agreement signed in Washington on August 8, stating that Armenia gained nothing from the document and that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan “played the role of decoration” at the event, Pastinfo reports.
According to Kocharyan, the United States gained future oversight of the corridor to be established, effective control over the Iranian border, and a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for President Donald Trump.
He added that Azerbaijan gained a corridor through Armenian territory, the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, and the repeal of Section 907 of the U.S. Freedom Support Act.
“What did Armenia get? I searched the documents for anything concrete — zero, just problems. What did Nikol Pashinyan get? A photo with Trump’s signature and a legally meaningless piece of paper that gives him another chance to deceive the Armenian people. In the U.S., Pashinyan was just decor: there was a table, a chair, a picture, a flag, and there was Pashinyan,” Kocharyan said.
On August 8, a trilateral summit was held at the White House with the participation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The parties signed a Joint Declaration summarizing the meeting's results.
In Washington, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, in the presence of their respective leaders and President Trump, pre-signed a draft agreement on establishing peace and interstate relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
