Even though the Joint Statement on Karabakh was signed without Karabakh official participation , as only Armenian , Azerbaijani and Russian leaders have signed the document , still in the post-war period in his speeches Pashinian has stated that he made the decision on signing the Statement based on the talks with the Artsakh representatives who have stated that the war should be stopped , showing that the Artsakh position was also taken into account . Moreover , in his article about the origins of the 44-Day War , Pashinian stated that the expulsion of Artsakh from the negotiation process was the major failure of the Armenian government over the course of the years ( The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia 2021 ). This kind of declarations have shown that Pashinian kept being consistent with his pre-war declaration about the necessity of including Artsakh in the negotiation process even after the Statement signed , explaining the nonparticipation of the Artsakh representatives in the 2020 Karabakh process by the impossibility to include Artsakh in the process at that escalating stage of the war when the decision on the cessation of the hostilities should have been made immediately .
However , it seems that Pashinian was consistent in his positions on the issue due to the fact that his consistency in including Artsakh as a negotiation party made it possible for him to blame the former Armenian governments for excluding Artsakh out of the negotiation process . He stated that the expulsion of Artsakh has been detrimental for the conflict resolution process and that the mistakes made by the former governments haven ’ t given him any real possibility to avoid the disastrous outcomes , specifically in the situation of an active military conflict . Pashinian has been consistent on the issue of the negotiation parties as this gave him a chance not to take the responsibility for the outcomes and keep the public support highlighting that he made everything possible in the process disrupted by the previous government . However , the question of to what extent his uncompromisingly publicly expressed position on including Artsakh as a fullfledged participant in the negotiation process , have contributed to the intensification of Azerbaijan ’ s willingness to provoke a real war , still remains open . While receiving criticism for plaguing the negotiation process to the deadlock by deliberately taking such a categorical position of officially including the representatives of Karabakh in the negotiation that in no scenario will be accepted by the Azerbaijani side Pashinian stated that :
“ The negotiations have already come to a deadlock . In fact , I offer a way out of the deadlock ” ( The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia 2018 ).
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