YEREVAN. – Past daily of Armenia writes: The day before yesterday, the authorities set up a [parliamentary] committee of inquiry into the 44-day [Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)] war [in the fall of 2020].

It became known yesterday that the [parliamentary] opposition "Armenia" and "With Honor" factions refuse to participate in the work of that committee. The opposition particularly noted that "the committee of inquiry will be engaged in staging the 'innocence' of the authorities."

(…) And what do independent analysts think? In a conversation with Past newspaper, military analyst Davit Jamalyan noted that the objective of setting up such a committee by the authorities is one. "The setting up of this committee has the objective of removing the blame [for the defeat in the aforesaid war] from them [i.e., the incumbent Armenian authorities] and putting the blame on someone else. That is, they will attempt to appoint culprits—in the person of the army, in the person of the Artsakh leadership, as well as state-centered forces, the previous authorities, and Russia. The objective of setting up that committee will be just to justify [PM] Nikol Pashinyan, as well as very large doses of some falsifications, manipulations will be thrown into the public arena. ‘We did everything [to win the war], but could not; the reason is that…' And the list of culprits will go starting from this very passage. That committee, by and large, is being set up to clean up their own image," Jamalyan said.