No open or secret document was signed during the meeting held in Moscow in April 2016. This is what third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said during a press conference today.

“I call on everyone to judge with facts. The April 12 statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs clearly states that the 1994 termless ceasefire agreement is in effect. What other document can there be?” he said.

Serzh Sargsyan also provided details about how the meeting was organized. He stated that the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Yuri Khachaturov called him and said the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia had said the Azerbaijanis were ready to meet and talk about a ceasefire, after which he agreed and the meeting was organized in Tbilisi, but the Azerbaijanis refused to meet in Tbilisi and said they would meet in Moscow because any agreement needed to be guaranteed by a mediator, and Khachaturov left for Moscow.

Touching upon the fact that Khachaturov didn’t show up to the meeting held by the Armenian parliamentary committee leading a probe into the circumstances behind the Four-Day Artsakh War, Serzh Sargsyan stated that he had talked to Khachaturov several times and urged him to attend, but he had disagreed. “I understand Khachaturov’s position. He dedicated the best part of his life to Armenia’s security. Khachaturov dedicated his entire life to the army and Armenia’s national security, but people spread wrong information about him, stating that he was playing billiard when the military operations had begun,” he said.

When one of the journalists asked Serzh Sargsyan if he felt responsible for those who died during the Four-Day Artsakh War and if he is ready to apologize to their families, Serzh Sargsyan said he is ready to take responsibility for not only the officers and soldiers who died during the Four-Day Artsakh War, but also the officers and soldiers who died during the first Nagorno-Karabakh war.

Asked why he hadn’t touched upon the allegations fired at the authorities after the Four-Day Artsakh War earlier, Serzh Sargsyan said he hadn’t felt the need for that and later he hadn’t found it appropriate.