YEREVAN. Nov 29 (Interfax) - Karabakh should return to the negotiating process aimed at resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.
"The 1994 truce was signed between three subjects: Armenia, Karabakh and Azerbaijan. At the Budapest summit Karabakh was recognized as a party to the conflict. Subsequently Karabakh found itself outside of the negotiating process, including with Armenia's participation. This was a gross mistake by the Armenian leadership, which we will rectify with all possible efforts," Pashinyan said at a pre-election rally in the city of Sevan on Thursday.
During his premiership the negotiating process saw "very concrete results," he said.
"Proof of this is the comparatively peaceful situation on the front. The truce has not held so clearly for 15 years now. But that does not mean anything, since Armenia and Azerbaijan have different ideas about the [conflict] settlement issue," Pashinyan said.
Armenia is for a purely peaceful resolution, "but I can only hold talks on Armenia's behalf, not on behalf of Karabakh," Pashinyan said.