Vahram Atanesyan, a former member of the Supreme Council of Armenia and a member of the National Assembly of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, wrote on his Facebook page:

"It is fundamentally wrong that there has ever been a non-mythical government in Armenia. The facts are inexorable: less than a year after assuming the post of president, Robert Kocharyan and his team, including in Stepanakert, agreed to accept the "common state" version of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement as the basis for negotiations, under which all territories around Nagorno-Karabakh, except for the Lachin corridor, were to be returned to Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh within the internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan would be recognized as a "republican-type state formation", in fact, an autonomous republic. In retrospect, I am increasingly convinced that a non-mythical state policy would have been more effective than a diplomatic "half-heartedness", which in general terms amounted to "trade". Armenia returns all territories outside the NK if Azerbaijan recognizes...

At first, they said, "if it recognizes the independence of NK," then they said, "if it recognizes the holding of a referendum on the status issue," and finally, they said, "if it recognizes its right to self-determination." Azerbaijan recognized nothing but war, which Armenia had been running away from for two decades, like the devil from incense. And if we had a stable, unwavering, non-mythologized foreign policy, then the war would have happened, perhaps, in 2010-11 and would have had a different ending than it did in 2020. So, people cannot be made pleasant attributions. The "mechanics of surrender" were put into action with the change of power in 1998.

P.S. Moreover, it is necessary to clearly emphasize that this negotiation buffoonery was unconstitutional in the case of Armenia, because according to the country's constitution, "Artsakh is Armenia, and that's it."