The Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict has never been and will never be an issue of any territorial claims for Armenia. Eduard Aghajanyan, Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations and an MP from the ruling majority “Civil Contract” Faction of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, stated about this during Friday’s press briefings in the NA.

According to the MP of Armenia’s ruling force, the basis of the aforesaid conflict is the rights and security of the people of Karabakh, and their chance to live and create in their homeland.

"In that context, the status of Karabakh has always been a means of exercising those rights," Aghajanyan added.

The parliament of Artsakh on Thursday discussed at a special sitting its statement addressed to the authorities of Armenia and Russia, as well as the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs. In it, the Karabakh MPs demand that Armenia’s authorities renounce their catastrophic position of giving up the interests of Nagorno-Karabakh. Earlier, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia had stated that the international community demands from the Armenian side to "lower the bar" in the Artsakh issue.