Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan provided detailed information regarding the Russian-mediated ceasefire negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan during the 2020 Karabakh war. Pashinyan revealed that he signed a trilateral statement to halt the war on the morning of November 9.

Speaking at a parliamentary commission meeting probing the war, Pashinyan particularly noted: “I agreed to kick off negotiations on this topic with one condition, that it won’t contain clauses relating to Shushi (Armenian name for Shusha) and a corridor through the territory of Armenia. I also offered to return to Aghdam in exchange for Hadrut, which Azerbaijan had occupied. This was the beginning of the process aimed at signing the trilateral statement. However, as of November 8, only a part of Shushi  was still under our control, and I realized we could not completely bring it back."

Pashinyan stated that he signed the ceasefire agreement on the morning of November 9, but Azerbaijan did not immediately sign it and instead put forward new demands.

“But the moment the Russian President said that Azerbaijan wants to add a clause on the return of the enclaves of Tavush province, I declared that I rule out signing such a document. And it was officially noted that we are not signing a document. Sometime later, it turned out that an agreement was reached to remove that clause. At the same time, around midnight, we started to receive news about intensified military operations and that there were a large number of drones above Stepanakert. After difficult and long discussions, I signed the document, which, of course, was worse than the option I had signed in the morning on that same day, but was better than the rest of the proposed variants, one of which envisaged the Meghri corridor and the other the return of enclaves of Tavush province,” he added. 

The parliamentary select committee investigating the 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War will also summon de-facto Nagorno-Karabakh President Arayik Harutyunyan and other high-ranking officials for a testimony.