PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said there is something fundamental in the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiation process, which has been hidden from the public for a long time. In the proposed Madrid Principles of the conflict settlement, there was an article on granting an interim status to Karabakh, which Azerbaijan had refused to discuss since 2011, Pashinyan said on Wednesday, April 14.
According to him, the Armenian side was supposed to ensure that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs persuade Azerbaijan to accept the temporary status of Karabakh, but "the fact is that Azerbaijan's position was accepted by the mediators in 2014-2015."
"Two months before the April 2016 war, the mediators clearly proposed to the Armenian side to abandon their aspirations to achieve a temporary status. The Armenian side rejected [the proposal]," Pashinyan said in a Q&A session in parliament.
"And two mon...