In a Facebook post, Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, outlined his views on the situation concerning Nagorno-Karabakh problem and possible scenarios which he said existed prior to the latest conflict.

He said the Armenian side agreed to pull out of the seven districts of Azerbaijan around Nagorno-Karabakh in 2011, in return for a referendum, which Azerbaijan rejected. Pashinyan also claimed that it was agreed that majority of the population of Shusha be Azeris, as it was back in 1988. It is the second largest city of Nagorno-Karabakh, of historic and cultural importance for Azerbaijanis.

Armenian PM added that Azerbaijan did not accept a special status for a Lachin corridor, a road which links Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Pashinyan also stated that Armenia was prepared to a war but alleging that Turkey’s and mercenaries involvement was a game-changer.

Azerbaijan says Armenia never intended to free the Azerbaijani territories it occupied since 1990s and dragged leg at peace negotiations to keep status-quo from the 1994 ceasefire which had ended the first conflict. Furthermore, it adds that Armenia illegally settled them with Armenian population, replacing their original Azerbaijani names.

In the first war, Armenians had managed to seize control of not only Nagorno-Karabakh, but seven other Azerbaijani districts around it. Nagorno-Karabakh is an internationally recognized part of Azerbaijan with ethnic Armenian minority. It had been occupied and run by the Armenian separatists

Authorities of Armenian separatists of Nagorno-Karabakh built infrastructures in those seven districts, bringing in Armenians from Middle East and other parts of Armenia to live there. They published videos promoting and inviting more Armenians to settle down in the occupied Azeri districts.

It led to renewal of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which flared up on September 27 and lasted for 44 days. In this second conflict, Azerbaijani army routed Armenian troops, capturing back a swath of territories lost in the first war. Armenia gave up signing a ceasefire brokered by Russia, agreeing to give back all of the occupied seven districts, along with Shusha and dozens of villages of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenian population of the region along with several cities and towns are under guard of the Russian troops stationed there as keepers, according to the ceasefire deal. The status of Nagorno-Karabakh is to be decided by the negotiations to be held in the future.