My experience says that no document has been signed after the April 2016 events because if it had been signed, they would have returned to the old positions and ratified the old agreement. Secretary of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Security Council Samvel Babayan stated this in an interview with the RFE/RL Armenian Service, referring to the remark that there are assumptions that a secret document had been signed which specifies the outcome of the April 2016 war.

"From the very beginning, when [Azerbaijan president Ilham] Aliyev called Moscow and said that ‘We will not give up our positions, but we are ready to stop, not to continue,' it already speaks of the fact that they could not have signed a document. Even if they had signed, it would have been between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and it would not have worked, it would not have had anything to do with Karabakh. In 1993-1994, all the documents were signed with the participation of Karabakh; it will not give it anything. There he [Armenia’s ex-President Serzh Sargsyan] is right; I cannot deny it there," he said.

And to the reminder that at the time he used to say that Serzh Sargsyan was negotiating concessions in Nagorno-Karabakh, Samvel Babayan responded as follows: "No matter what he says, today we have the documents under our disposal that they negotiated [it]. It is very simply, clearly stated that we hand over five regions, then two [more] regions, then a corridor; the settlement of [the] Karabakh [issue] is not visible. And troops are deployed to ensure that.

Now I am asking a question: Is it a concession or not, is it a betrayal or not if it is clearly written in the constitution of the Artsakh Republic that the territories that are under our control are completely ours.

A question arises whether the people of Artsakh were asked when going to those negotiations. Has anyone empowered them or not?

I would just ask people to shut their mouths, not to talk anymore. And if they are interested in publishing those secret documents that we have today, what negotiations they conducted, we are ready to publish it as well; but that is harm to our national interests; that is why we are not talking about it. And if anyone wants to get closely familiarized [with them], they are at my disposal, they can come to the Security Council, we will familiarize them with what they negotiated, what document they were ready, where they should have signed, and why they amended the constitution of Artsakh, extended the 'life' of the President of Artsakh for three [more] years."