Armenian politician: "The only quick settlement of the Karabakh issue is a variant of its ceding"

"Such worsened conflicts can be settled in a few days but the only way is ceding everything.

Only in this case it will be possible to speak of the soonest resolution of the conflict.

In the remaining cases this is a mixed knot, which is impossible to be settled in several months.

The only way for the soonest resolution of the Karabakh problem is ceding Karabakh", said Paruyr Ayrikyan, chairman of the Association for national self-determination, at a press conference yesterday.

Commenting on the statement of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan about possible soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict, Ayrikyan recommended all to forget Ter-Petrosyan, featuring him as an ordinary irresponsible person.

Speaking of the ways of resolution of the Karabakh problem, he noted that the first president of Armenia should not have spoken of the idea of self-determination of Karabakh and appointed the elected president of Karabakh Robert Kocharyan the Prime Minister of Armenia.

"This is a step aside from the idea of unification, self-determination. Levon Ter-Petrosyan did not resign. He ceded his powers to the Prime Minister, he appointed, that is the powers were ceded to another member of the same group", noted he.

Among mistakes, Ayrikyan listed holding talks in Karabakh's place: "We must purposely speak of the issue of the Karabakh self-determination. Armenia must state that it does not go into the issue, but is a guarantor of Karabakh. The Karabakh residents must settle their problem".

"The self-determination principle is not the main principle, it is the crucial one", noted Paruyr Ayrikyan.

/Tert.am/