The legal component was not highlighted in the settlement of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) conflict, with the Armenian authorities relying heavily on political solutions, lawyer Siranush Sahakyan, a co-founder of Path of Law NGO, told a news conference on “National Catastrophe and Revival: Legal Component” on Thursday.

Siranush Sahakyan noted that in recent years Azerbaijan had been making every effort to belittle the format of the OSCE Minsk Group dealing with the Karabakh settlement.

"In these conditions, when we did not seek and find the legal path, legal mechanisms as an alternative way of resolving the problem, the military solution to the conflict seemed to be legitimized," Sahakyan said.

In 2020, according to the lawyer, such a solution was imposed. "How legitimate was the use of force by Azerbaijan? There are no answers to this question yet. Meanwhile, it is important for assessing the legality of the trilateral statement signed on November 9 by Yerevan, Moscow and Baku,” Sahakyan added.