The Armenian authorities are now looking for excuses for the failure of their peace agenda, Tigran Abrahamyan, an MP from the opposition Pativ Unem bloc, said on Thursday.

“In fact, the "peace agenda" promoted by the government has no grounds whatsoever. Simply put, the desire for peace is there, but all paths leading to it are ‘mined’,” he wrote on Facebook.

Abrahamyan quoted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as saying in the parliament on Wednesday that “no one can guarantee that the peace agenda will succeed”.

“No one can guarantee that we will be able, will manage, because peace is not a one-sided movement, but the result of cooperation. We have no illusions, we see that the number of those who want to destroy us is greater than we can imagine. And the agenda of peace is an attempt to manage or neutralize the desires to destroy us that exist in the world,” Pashinyan noted.

“The authorities' confession is an important indication, because the main reason why the public, disliking the authorities, supports them or takes a passive stance is because people thought that they could bring peace at any price,” Abrahamyan said.

“However, the authorities are gradually abandoning their former confident position and are now looking for excuses for the failure of the peace agenda, blaming it on the countries hostile to Armenia and the “international community”.

“The "era of peace" promoted by the authorities is actually an agenda for the surrender of Armenia and Artsakh, which must be stopped,” the MP said.