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19 September 2009 [10:58] - Today.Az
The Nagorno-Karabakh peace process has reached a point where President Serzh Sargsyan has not way back, the leader of the Armenian National Movement Levon Ter-Petrosyan stated at a rally organized by the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) on Sept. 18.
The primary reason for this conclusion is an unprecedented statement made by the Presidents Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy on July 10. They actually stated their personal involvement in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process thereby enhancing their countries’ role in the process.
“It is normally typical of the final stages of peace processes, which means that the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not ‘far off’,” Ter-Petrosyan said.
The opposition leader rejected official Yerevan’s statements as false.
He said the settlement plan does not contain any international guarantees of security for Nagorno-Karabakh, of land communication with Armenia or the exercise of the Nagorno-Karabakh people’s right to self-determination.
“The lack of these essential components means that the Madrid Principles, which were initially designed as a settlement package, turned into a phased settlement plan. That is, the Armenian authorities eventually returned to a plan they rejected as a defeatist one ten years ago. But they have no courage to admit the fact,” Ter-Petrosyan said.
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