Stepan Danielyan, a political scientist and member of the “Mother Armenia” Initiative Group, was recently a guest on 24TV’s Interview with Hermine Mikaelyan. During the conversation, he expressed the view that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in his comments to journalists, effectively accused the Armenian authorities of betraying Artsakh and surrendering it. Notably, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan did not refute Lavrov’s claims.

“Sergey Lavrov said something terrible - he accused Armenia’s leadership of betrayal,” Danielyan noted. “According to Lavrov, Armenia was offered an interim solution for Nagorno-Karabakh multiple times. Specifically, five regions were proposed, two were to receive interim status, and the final resolution was to be deferred to future generations. But the Armenian authorities rejected that proposal. Ararat Mirzoyan didn’t deny it, given that the U.S. and France were also involved in the process, it would be impossible to lie at that level,” Danielyan said.