Taking into account the involvement of Armenia’s third president and his son-in-law, Mikayel Minasyan, in facilitating the 2018 “velvet revolution,” there is reason to believe that Serzh Sargsyan has been using Nikol Pashinyan to carry out the commitments made to Turkey in 2009 under the so-called “football diplomacy.”

The parliamentary factions of Nagorno-Karabakh did not initiate Harutyunyan’s resignation. Moreover, neither former presidents Arkadi Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan - who are currently imprisoned alongside Harutyunyan - nor any other political figure had called for his resignation.

In that document, the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh’s status was placed in parentheses—a sort of “gentlemen’s agreement,” implying that the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh would be determined later through negotiations between the parties.