Whoever takes the trouble slams the government for the mistakes committed over the past 25-30 years. It has reached the point that the person who drove Nagorno-Karabakh out of the negotiation process and converted the talks into the Armenia-Azerbaijan format blames us for considering the Karabakh issue in the context of a territorial dispute.

We are accused of the international community perceiving this year’s Azerbaijani aggression against Karabakh as the reinstatement of its own territorial integrity. And the blame comes from a man, during whose rule the international community accused Armenia of documenting the occupation Azerbaijan’s territories. In the meantime, he told the Armenian society that there was nothing dangerous in it, because when entering the toilet of a plane you can see an inscription saying “occupied,” so there is nothing terrible in the word occupied.

I can guess that many may wonder what I am talking about right now. I am talking about things that were known to every citizen of Armenia in the 2000s. I mean the explanations for Armenia’s diplomatic failures given at the highest state level or the allegations that they were not so bad.

But time probably erases the memory, or at least darkens it, and some have decided to take advantage of that. The attitude of the international community was not formed in 2020, but during the last 25 years. I mean that: a) The Karabakh issue was perceived as a territorial dispute, and it became our biggest problem; b) Armenia gradually began to be perceived by the international community as an occupier. It definitely did not happen during the past couple of years. Instead, during the last 2 years there has been an attempt to get out of that magical circle.