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Arayik Harutyunyan said he wanted to address a letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, but Pashinyan did not allow him

03 March 2025 21:40 (UTC +04:00)

In court hearings on the criminal case against citizens of the Republic of Armenia, who are accused of committing crimes against peace and humanity, war crimes, including the preparation and conduct of a war of aggression, acts of genocide, violation of the laws and customs of warfare, as well as terrorism, financing of terrorism, forcible seizure of power, forcible retention of power and numerous other crimes as a result of Armenia's military aggression, Arayik Harutyunyan said that he wanted to address a letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, but Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not allow him to do that.

“On the evening of October 18, Bako Sahakyan, Arkadi Ghukasyan and I had our last meeting. I called Nikol Pashinyan and said that I was ready to write a letter to the President of Azerbaijan about stopping the war, adding that Bako and Arkadi were ready to join in if necessary. The essence of the letter was simply about stopping the war. The content of the letter we wrote to Pashinyan was that you should stop the war in any way and state that this is the desire of the Armenian people. There was no unified opinion in Armenia, so I said that he could refer to us in asking that the war be stopped. We are ready to allegedly plead guilty afterwards, but human lives must be saved. Pashinyan held several meetings, met with the opposition and almost everyone else. At the end of October 19, he called me back and said that the war would go on. I don’t want to go into further detail, but the worst thing was that the war was going on.”

Arayik Harutunyan admitted that the “commander” of the “Karabakh defense army” reported to the Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Armenia. “I did not appoint or dismiss the military commander because I did not have the authority to do so. The “Karabakh army” had not functioned as a separate army for decades. A criminal case has been initiated against the commander of the “Karabakh army” in Armenia. If they had reported to me, a criminal case would have been initiated against it in Karabakh,” he said.