Kocharyan proposed security guarantees for Armenia

Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan gave an interview to Lara Arakelyan, commentator of the Haylur news program on 5 TV Channel. During the conversation, he spoke about the causes of the 44-day war, the mistakes made by the authorities during that period, and also touched upon the November 2020 and Washington 2025 documents.

Many earlier comments had framed the issue as a choice between the August 8 declaration (Armenia–USA–Azerbaijan) and the November 9 declaration (Armenia–Russia–Azerbaijan), or as an overemphasis on the Washington document. Kocharyan offered a different perspective, stressing the need to establish guarantee mechanisms for the Washington agreement.

“Alongside the document initialed in Washington, I would also propose signing another document that would include guarantee mechanisms for this agreement. The optimal option would be for the guarantors to be the USA, Russia, and China,” Kocharyan said in his interview with 5 TV Channel.

He emphasized that he does not believe in peace without guarantees.
“They are not shooting because, whatever Azerbaijan wants, Pashinyan gives it away without resistance. This peace depends entirely on the will of one person: if he wants peace, it will come; if he does not, it will not. That person is the President of Azerbaijan, Aliyev. This is not peace,” Kocharyan said.

Kocharyan proposes transforming the August 8 agreement into a less conflict-prone regional security framework. This option should be considered as a supplement to his earlier proposals, which together form effective security guarantees for the Republic of Armenia.

Previously, Robert Kocharyan had suggested expanding the TRIPP project with US participation and ensuring Armenia’s full connection with Iran through the Yeraskh–Julfa railway hub, and then via Azerbaijani territory toward Russia. Back in 2022, Kocharyan also proposed adding new components to Armenia’s security system, possibly by forming a trilateral format: Armenia–Russia–Iran.

He concluded by stressing that the source of power is the people, and therefore the choice lies with Armenia’s citizens: either to support a course that turns Armenia into a battleground for regional and extra-regional interests without security guarantees, or to choose the path of complementarity, based on finding points of convergence among regional and global actors.

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