Absolutely no any verbal promise has been made. It has never been our workstyle – to yield something in accordance with verbal arrangements, the third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said.

He commented on the allegations of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that Serzh Sargsyan made verbal promises (on the Karabakh settlement) and in 2018-2019 it is time to fulfill these promises, which have not been recorded in any document.

"When I was listening to the portions about Artsakh in that interview, it was astonishing to hear some so-called “arguments”, which I heard in 2008, 2009 and 2010 from the President of Azerbaijan. It would seem to me at certain moments – to be very honest with you – that it was Azerbaijani President speaking, not Armenia’s governor. It was very painful because he no longer could use those objective arguments that would give us good chances to achieve a status for Artsakh, as if he tries to put forward those arguments, tomorrow they will remind him of his own words," Sargsyan said.

He noted that thinking people and some political forces in Armenia are disappointed. "I have come to observe that among certain political forces in Armenia and many intelligent people there is a sense of disillusionment. There is a certain atmosphere of disappointment. And the allegations of those – I mean both the incumbent authorities here and those in Azerbaijan – that the Nagorno Karabakh issue is resolved, has in some ways affected these people. I have come on air to declare once again that Artsakh will never be part of Azerbaijan. And for that – despite the calamitous war, despite the capitulation – there are still opportunities to be seized," he said.