Arkady Ghukasyan: 'Armenia acted as guarantor for Karabakh'

The Republic of Armenia acted as a guarantor for Karabakh, Arkady Ghukasyan, accused of committing numerous crimes during Armenia's military aggression against the Azerbaijani people, said at a regular court hearing, Report informs.

“Of course, given the plenty of unresolved issues, the small Karabakh could not successfully organize its defense on its own until the conflict was resolved.”

He said that he was in Karabakh during the 44-day war in 2020. “It happened at the time when I arrived in Karabakh. Almost on the second day of the war, together with another “former president” Bako Sahakyan, I requested a meeting with Arayik Harutyunyan.

We met with him. We asked him to use all the opportunities at his disposal to ask Armenia to stop the war.”

Arkady Ghukasyan claimed that there were no mercenaries in the territory of Karabakh. “There was the Ministry of Defense and the Armenian army, which was financed by the Republic of Armenia.”