There is “nothing positive” about the statement following the talks between Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev hosted by European Council President Charles Michel in Brussels on Wednesday, according to MP Aram Vardevanyan from the opposition Hayastan bloc.

Moreover, he says the statement is “disturbing”, explaining that it makes no mention of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), Azerbaijan’s policy of ethnic cleaning against the Artsakh Armenians and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship.

Speaking at a briefing in the parliament on Thursday, Vardevanyan also deplored the agreement to set up a joint border commission by the end of April to delimit the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan amid Azerbaijan’s continued military attacks and efforts to ethnically cleanse Artsakh.

“Don’t the current authorities remember that we again suffered casualties a few days ago? How is the border delimitation and demarcation process supposed to be carried out in the current situation?” he said.

Vardevanyan says efforts are being made to frighten Armenian society into thinking that the alternative to the “disgraceful” situation is war, adding it is not true.

“The likelihood of war does not mean that we have to humiliate ourselves all the way," the oppositionist stressed.