NA Vice Speaker: No single proposal  to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh  conflict rejected during our tenure

ArmInfo Armenia's first president, Levon Ter- Petrosyan, stated back in 2012 that the Madrid Principles stipulated that Nagorno-Karabakh was part of  Azerbaijan. Let me remind you that after the adoption of the Madrid  Principles, all negotiating documents were based on these principles,  as stated by NA Vice Speaker Ruben Rubinyan  in a conversation with  journalists on September 26.

He was commenting on Levon Ter-Petrosyan's request to publish the 2019 negotiating document, after which the debate would cease. 

When asked why the Foreign Ministry hasn't officially published the  proposal that was on the negotiating table in 2019, as Ishkhan  Saghatelyan recently insisted, Rubinyan replied that the Prime  Minister once stated that he had instructed the Foreign Ministry to  first present the documents to him and assess their advisability of  their publication. "In fact, there are no secrets in the 2019  documents. These documents represented a summary of the situation in  the negotiations at the end of Serzh Sargsyan's presidency. All  documents based on the Madrid Principles boiled down to the  following: 5, 5+2, or 7 districts will be transferred to Azerbaijan  and nothing more. In other words, there is no mention of the status  of Nagorno- Karabakh, and, in fact, the Madrid Principles imply that  after that, it is obvious what will happen to this status: it will be  part of Azerbaijan. This is Levon Ter-Petrosyan's interpretation, and  it is the correct interpretation," the Deputy Speaker emphasized.

 He also  added that none of the documents regarding the referendum  contained any wording that definitely suggested that the referendum  would be conducted in a particular manner or what its outcome would  be.  "I'm not talking about any specific document, but there were  formulations that could be interpreted as a referendum for the entire  territory of Azerbaijan, including Nagorno-Karabakh," Rubinyan said.

Regarding Ishkhan Saghatelyan's remark that this document offered  Armenia much more favorable terms for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh  issue, which the current government conspiratorially rejected,  Rubinyan responded: "We have not turned down any proposal for  resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict during our tenure, so any  claims otherwise are false," the RA Deputy Speaker concluded.