YEREVAN. – Armenia should pull out from the Karabakh peace talks and yield its place to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). 

Marxist Party of Armenia leader Davit Hakobyan stated the above-said during a press conference on Thursday.

In his words, NKR should be given the opportunity to shape its own foreign policy.

“Once Karabakh becomes a subject of international law, it will decide [on its own] in which direction to conduct [its] foreign policy. We should take advantage of the great powers’ clash of interests,” Hakobyan said. 

He also expressed a view that the Karabakh issue cannot be a subject for negotiations.

“The party that triggered war and suffered defeat [i.e., Azerbaijan] cannot be a negotiating party,” the Marxist party leader noted. 

Davit Hakobyan added that the OSCE Minsk Group has lost its role as a diplomatic key to the settlement of the conflict. 

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