RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan commented on the statements he made at the time about starting the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations from scratch, "I said: let's understand what the Madrid principles are. Can Nagorno-Karabakh be self-determined by those principles? Can it not be a part of Azerbaijan?" I spoke about this publicly, after which I received an answer: yes if Azerbaijan agrees. This is the zero point; what is difficult?'
Pashinyan also talked about his mistakes, "I should have stood up then, shown the negotiation papers, and said: we have reached this point; we have no choice. Hey, that's why I should be judged for not coming, to say that this game is over. It is my mistake. If you blame me, blame this. I'm upset that you don't point the blame. Blame him because I should have said this game is lost; the longer we drag on, the harder we will suffer."