Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan gave an interview to CNN after meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Mnatsakanyan, a guest of the well-known presenter Christian Amanpour, was helpless in the face of difficult questions addressed to her.
At the beginning of the interview, he tried to find every excuse to defend Armenia, which has grossly violated the humanitarian ceasefire and aggression against civilians. However, Christian Amanpur repeatedly interfered in Mnatsakanyan's speech, highlighting four UN Security Council resolutions calling for the immediate withdrawal of the occupying forces from Azerbaijani territory.
Ms. Amanpur reminded the Armenian Minister that the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on March 14, 2008 entitled "The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan."
This 9-point resolution reaffirms the principled position of the UN General Assembly on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The document supports the territorial integrity of the Republic of Azerbaijan within its internationally recognized borders, demands the full and unconditional withdrawal of Armenian forces from all occupied territories, and creates appropriate conditions for the return of internally displaced Azerbaijanis.
The Armenian minister loses her temper at the host's question and tries to change the subject, just like Prime Minister Pashinyan, who recently found himself in a difficult situation in an interview with the BBC. The host's next question puts Mnatsakanyan in a dilemma.
Christian Amanpur recalls Pashkina's statement "Karabakh is Armenia", which clearly reflects Armenia's policy of aggression. He asks the Armenian minister what is meant by this nationalist and provocative statement of Pashkina. "Can this statement be taken as Armenia's desire to unite Karabakh?" she demanded an explanation from the leading minister.
Mnatsakanyan avoids answering the question again. He claims that by making such statements, Pashinyan was only thinking about "Armenia's role in the security of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh." This absurd response from Zohrab Mnatsakanyan once again shows that official Yerevan is pursuing a cowardly policy.
In a difficult situation on CNN, the Armenian Foreign Minister admitted that the Prime Minister, who said "Karabakh is Armenia", in fact made a statement that was insincere and distorted, contrary to international law.
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