The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, will be summoned to the National Assembly (NA) committee of inquiry into the 44-day Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war—in the fall of 2020. Andranik Kocharyan, chair of the aforesaid committee as well as of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security, and an MP of the ruling majority "Civil Contract" Faction in the NA, stated about this at Monday’s press briefing—at the NA—of the representatives of the ruling Civil Contract Party.

According to him, the PM’s attendance to a meeting of this committee will be mandatory.

"[It will be mandatory]; this is Nikol Pashinyan's wish. The parliamentary opposition, in fact, has lost the opportunity to ask questions to the PM on topics of interest to them. The duration of the meeting was not limited. They [i.e., the parliamentary opposition] would have had the opportunity to ask Pashinyan any question," added the head of this inquiry committee.

And asked whether Pashinyan's accountability in the defeat in the aforesaid war will be noted in the conclusion of this committee, Andranik Kocharyan said that the answer to this question will be given by the results of the respective work being carried out.

To note, the parliamentary opposition faction—“Armenia and "With Honor"—had come to Monday’s first meeting of this committee, but soon left—in fact, boycotting this meeting.

As reported earlier, the opposition “Armenia and "With Honor" Factions of the NA had released a joint statement announcing that they will not join the parliamentary committee of inquiry into 44-day war because, in their view, the incumbent Armenian authorities cannot objectively investigate their own actions in this regard.