There is a force in Armenia that brings war - the Civil Contract Party (CPP) - Ishkhan Saghatelyan
12-09-2026 17:23 Armenia A comment
MP Ishkhan Saghatelyan from the "Armenia" faction of the National Assembly wrote on his Facebook page.
««Either concession or war». The cheap blackmail of the ruling party
Every time there is talk about preventing the next unilateral concession, the current government resorts to the same simplistic blackmail.
— «Shouldn’t we give up Tigranashen, do you want war?».
— «Shouldn’t we change the Constitution at Aliyev's request, do you want war?».
No. There is one force that brings war to Armenia, and that force is the ruling party.
However, fulfilling all of Azerbaijan's demands and being in the midst of war has a main link that this government has completely erased: negotiating based on state interests, with competence and effectiveness, and protecting the territorial integrity of the country.
How would a state-minded negotiator act.
- On constitutional demands. The preamble of Azerbaijan's Constitution directly references the 1991 Act of Independence of Azerbaijan, which in turn declares Azerbaijan as the successor state of the Musavat Republic from 1918–1920, a state whose official maps and documents depict more than half of Armenia's territory as «Azerbaijani».
A competent negotiator would put this on the table. If the precondition for peace is constitutional texts, then Azerbaijan must be the first to change its Constitution. Otherwise, both sides must mutually refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.
- On territorial demands. To prevent Baku from continuously presenting new demands, the Armenian side must prioritize and separately address the issue of the de-occupation of territories seized from the Republic of Armenia as a result of Azerbaijani aggression after 2020 in the negotiations.
- On the false thesis of «Western Azerbaijan». This falsehood should be countered with a well-founded concept for the protection of the rights of Armenians forcibly displaced from Azerbaijani cities due to massacres, rather than silencing and persecuting those who speak about the right of Artsakh Armenians to return or threatening one's own people with war.
In addition, it is a vital necessity to raise the issue of the immediate release of all prisoners of war and unlawfully detained persons with a clear demand at the negotiating table. This could be one of the manifestations of having one's own negotiation agenda.
As long as the negotiation agenda is dictated solely by Azerbaijan, they cease to be negotiations and turn into an endless chain of unilateral concessions.
Therefore, the choice of «war or surrender everything» is false; there are alternative solutions, and this is possible in the case of having an Armenian government.».
* This text was automatically translated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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