Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s press secretary Mane Gevorgyan wrote on her Facebook page: “Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), stated on “Yerkir Media” that this was a betrayal, that Russia was ready to deploy peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh on 28 October, but Prime Minister Pashinyan was against it and agreed only “after handing over Shushi”.

The imaginary nature of this thesis of Mr. Tsarukyan becomes obvious with a very concrete fact. In an interview with the Russian “Interfax” on 22 October, the Prime Minister stated that he was in favor of the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh.

He also repeated this thesis on 25 October in an interview with the Indian WION TV channel.

Therefore, on 28 October, he could not oppose the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in any way.”