Levon Ter-Petrosyan: "The balance has been broken in favor of Azerbaijan and today it is economically and politically stronger than Armenia"

The due information was provided by the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan at a press conference in Yerevan.

The ex-president noted that the working authorities adheres to the necessity to preserve the status quo and they imitated talks for 10 years and activity in this issue.

"The status quo has been formally preserved in the result of this policy, Karabakh remains within the same borders as it was in 1997.

But this is a formality, the essence is more important for me. The status quo is not a map, or a contact line or borders. For me the status quo is a correlation between the powers. In 1997 this correlation was different.

We were almost equal both economically and politically. The balance has been broken in favor of Azerbaijan, it is economically and politically stronger than Armenia. Not in the military sense.

Armenia still able to rival Azerbaijan and we will not be defeated if a new war is resumed, we will even not lose our current positions, but the further economic and political consolidation of Azerbaijan will lead to its military strengthening as well", he noted and added that the soonest resolution of the Karabakh conflict is in Armenia's interest.

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