Artsakh NA speaker: NKR Representative Office building cannot be  subject of political bargaining

ArmInfo. The Artsakh Representative Office building cannot be the subject of various dirty deals and political bargaining. This was stated by Artsakh National Assembly Speaker Ashot Danielyan in response to the announcement that an Armenian court had invalidated the state registration of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) government's ownership of the Artsakh Representative Office building in Yerevan.

Danielyan noted that, in essence, the Armenian authorities, taking  advantage of the fact that public attention is currently focused  entirely on the June 7 parliamentary elections, and not content with  merely undermining the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh  conflict, have committed another shameful, illegal, and immoral act  against Artsakh and its people through the unprecedented,  anti-national transfer of Artsakh to Azerbaijan, in violation of  fundamental norms of international law and based on false  "justifications," while continuing to promote hatred and  discrimination against the Artsakh people.

"For the people of Artsakh, the NKR representative office building is  not just real estate or territory, but a place that symbolizes the  statehood of Artsakh and provides minimal opportunities for uniting  and coordinating efforts to protect the rights of the people of  Artsakh, as established by the fundamental norms of international law  and confirmed by the decision of the International Court of Justice  in November 2023.  It cannot become the subject of various dirty  deals and political bargaining," the Speaker of the Artsakh  Parliament wrote on his Facebook page.

At the same time, he emphasized that such anti-Armenian actions will  not break their resolve to restore the rights of the people of  Artsakh, who have suffered war crimes and crimes against humanity.  "We will continue to seek the return to Artsakh and the restoration  of our statehood. We expect that institutions and compatriots in  Armenia and the diaspora concerned about the fate of Artsakh will  respond to this latest shameful step by the authorities of the  Republic of Armenia by expressing their protest in defense of the  restoration of our inalienable rights," Danielyan concluded.

As a reminder, on July 16, 2025, the Prosecutor General's Office of  Armenia filed a lawsuit in the Administrative Court against the  Cadastre Committee, demanding that the state registration of the NKR  government's ownership of the Artsakh representative office building  in Yerevan be declared invalid. At a press conference in Yerevan on  the same day, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that  the actions of the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia were  consistent with his earlier statement that he would not allow a  "state within a state" in the country. On February 2, 2026, Yeritsyan  stated that the issue of expropriating the building of the permanent  representative office of the Republic of Artsakh in Armenia was being  considered without the participation of the registered copyright  holder. And on May 26, 2026, the lawyer reported that the Chairman of  the Administrative Court of Armenia had upheld the claim of the  Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia and declared  the state registration of the Republic of Artsakh's ownership of the  Artsakh representative office building invalid. The lawyer emphasized  that he intends to appeal this decision.