Levon Ter-Petrosyan: "National security of Armenia is not the membership in various security systems but the peaceful co-existence with neighbors"

Ex-President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan said even in case of any progress is registered in the negotiation process, Turkey will open borders with Armenia.

By this way, Ter-Petrosyan will try to promote the further progress in the settlement of Nagorno-Garabagh conflict.

Expressing his opinion on the Garabagh settlement, Ter-Petrosyan noted that in case he is elected he will base on the logics of the current stage of negotiations if not on the content.

Touching upon the document, presented by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, he noted that this is the first document presented by the Minsk Group within the last 10 years, which means that the process becomes more serious.

The ex-president announced that he is acquianted with the content of the document. However he does not consider it his right to  assess the introduced proposals.

"I can only say that is  a phase variant of settlement and it was added by only one element-talks on conduction of a referendum, a poll a plebiscite in Nagorno Garabagh-by an unclear scheme, on an unclear issue, in unclear terms", the politician thus commented on the document.

The first president considers that the settlement of the Nagorno-Garabagh problem is crucial for Armenia.

The only and the most effective solution of the national security of Armenia is not the membership in various security systems but the peaceful co-existence with its four direct neighbors including Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia and Iran.

He said his dream is to see the times when the relations between Armenia and its neighbors will be so that that it will be able to have an army of only 10-15 thousand people.

/Day.Az/