The Armenian state cannot refuse the issue of Artsakh, in the roots of which it was itself. VARDAN OSKANYAN

The Armenian state cannot refuse the issue of Artsakh, in the roots of which it was itself.

Former Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian wrote on Facebook page.

"After the forced deportation of Artsakh Armenians, many in Armenia are looking for answers, some from sorrow, some from sin, and others are obsessed with the obsession. Among them are hundreds of four-year-old men and women born from Artsakh, who today live as refugees in Armenia. They were five years old in the early 1990s, when the people of Armenia left the streets, demanding the accession to Armenia to Armenia. They do not remember all this, they did not make any decision, they did not take any responsibility. But today they pay its price.

What was their fault? Which Artsakh was born in Artsakh? That they trusted a nation and a state that had ever united around the idea that the people of Artsakh have the right to self-determination and must eventually become an integral part of Armenia.

Since 1991, all governments of the Republic of Armenia have inherited the legal and moral responsibility of the state. Governments can change, leaders, come and go, but the state remains, and with it, its obligations. The continuity of statehood obliges to adhere to the commitments, values ​​and goals, which form the identity and historical path of the nation.

Inadmissible and politically, they claim that some today say that the Republic of Armenia has no longer a commitment to Artsakh, only because the current leaders want to forget the past. One cannot give up a job that the state has taken forward.

Today's abandonment is more reprehensible and unacceptable, because there are Nikol Pashinyan's personal statements and positions. In the first years of the government, after the 44-day war, he was one of the stronger figures in the Artsakh. His word was absolute, even extremist. He stood by the land of Stepanakert and stated that "Artsakh is Armenia and the end." He almost closed all the doors of the talks and aggravated not only in the Armenians of Artsakh, but also among his own electorate, that Armenia will never retreat. But during his leadership, the complete collapse of Artsakh and the largest deportation of Armenians took place during his leadership.

This was not a tragic inevitability. This refused not only of the historical role of Armenia, but also of security responsibility for its own citizens and compatriots.

There may be various administrations in Armenia, but no government has the right to refuse a core of the state's identity and legitimacy. The story of Artsakh's quietnal refugees is not only a personal tragedy. It is the indictment of the current Armenian authorities, the government, which has lost its path, conscience and mind. And that, first of all, is the political and moral failure of one person, Nikol Pashinyan. A man who had all the opportunities, powers and warnings, but chose the path of rejection, silence and defeat.

The story will strictly judge him. But our judgment should not wait for the judgment of time. It has already begun and must continue in public discussions, our collective memory, and our strong conviction that the Armenian state cannot refuse the issue of Artsakh.