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Political analyst Suren Surenyants, the leader of the Democratic Alternatives party, has reacted to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s remarks in an interview to The Telegraph.

In a social media post on Monday, he called attention to Pashinyan’s comments on the Alma-Ata Declaration and the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s arrest in Armenia in line with an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which Armenia formally joined on February 1.

“Many events took place after the signing and ratification [of the Alma-Ata Declaration], but in this context it is very important to record that in Prague on October 6, in the presence of the president of France and the European Council president, Armenia and Azerbaijan, in fact, after all those events, reaffirmed that they recognize each other's territorial integrity on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration,” Pashinyan told The Telegraph’s Roland Oliphant in the interview on Sunday.

“Thus, Pashinyan directly states that "many events" that took place after the signing of the Declaration (for example, the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as an entity by a number of international documents, even the trilateral statement of November 9, 2020), but he revised them in Prague, recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of unitary Azerbaijan. He implies that ‘I fulfilled my obligations, but Aliyev in return does not recognize even the territorial integrity of Armenia’,” Surenyants wrote on Facebook.

“Another part of Pashinyan's interview is more remarkable. In response to a question about Putin's possible arrest in Armenia, Pashinyan says, "there is an established legal order in Armenia, there are legal institutions, and in all cases the legal institutions of Armenia are the ones who make such decisions." (Pashinyan refrained from saying openly that Putin will not be arrested in Yerevan). Very soon we will get a "retaliation”: it will turn out that there are state agencies in Moscow "independent" of Putin, which can slightly "frighten" Armenia,” he added.