Serzh Sargsyan's office responds to Pashinyan's outbursts

168.am requested a comment from the office of Armenia’s third President, Serzh Sargsyan, regarding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s latest outbursts.

During a Q&A session in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Pashinyan threatened to “throw against the wall” and “trample underfoot” Armenia’s three former presidents if they don’t stop blaming him for the fall of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

Pashinyan lashed out at Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan for rejecting a televised debate with him on the issue, stating, “They wrapped their capitulation around my neck".

In response, Sargsyan’s office stated:

"Among all the assessments of his disastrous governance, the one that unsettles him to the point of becoming a national security threat is being called a capitulant.

Having already capitulated in negotiations with Azerbaijan, he suffered yet another intellectual and moral surrender yesterday. His erratic behavior is a reflection of the military and political imbalance between Armenia and Azerbaijan that he himself has caused. Crushed under the weight of the low bar set by Aliyev, he fails to conceal his fears.

Instead of resorting to grandiose rhetoric, there is only one thing he must do: confront his fears and publish all the documents negotiated until September 27, 2020.

It is not customary to negotiate, let alone debate, with those who have fallen below the bar."