Today.Az » Politics » Levon Ter-Petrosyan: "Last proposal of the co-chairmen regarding the resolution of the Karabakh conflict is a starting point for any elected president"
18 February 2008 [14:00] - Today.Az
The conflict can only be settled by compromises, based on mutual concessions.
The due announcement was made by Armenia's ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
The first president of Armenia explained the essence of compromise as follows: "If there are principal disputes around the future status of Karabakh, the issue is not worthy of discussing. It is more important to concentrate efforts on the resolution of other issues, and this is the main point of the phased resolution of the conflict".
"Karabakh returns 5 out of 7 "released" lands, international peacekeeping forces are dislocated around Karabakh, the territories between Armenia and Karabakh remain under Karabakh's control and the current political order remains on the territory of Karabakh for the best times to settle the issue of status", L.Ter-Petrosyan noted adding that such resolution was proposed in 1997, but it was declined only by Karabakh, as a side of talks.
He reminded that Robert Kocharyan, after becoming a president started to represent intrests of both Yerevan and Khankendi as he is a representative of Karabakh. He said if Serj Sarkisyan is elected the President of Armenia, Karabakh will never be able to restore its right to be a side of talks. In case any other person is elected, he will never be able to speak on behalf of Karabakh and the latter will return to the table of negotiations.
"I will refuse the mandate to represent Karabakh in case I am elected the President", the ex-president announced. He noted that the recent version, proposed by Minsk Group co-chairs is the same phased variant, which became even worse for the Armenian side. "Only one new element has been added on the postponed referendum, whose date is unknown. It is also unclear who will organize it
Either Serj Sarkisyan or me, the third candidacy is impossible, should come out from the variant, which is currently on the table of negotiations. This is the last proposal of the co-chairmen and it is a starting point for any president", he noted.
"Serj Sarkisyan has already declared his support to the recent proposal of the co-chairmen and I consider that it is a good basis for serious negotiations with Azerbaijan and Karabakh", Ter.Petrosyan concluded.
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