If Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s conception on Nagorno Karabakh issue resolution worked, we would have neither Armenia nor Nagorno Karabakh. You won’t restrict the appetite of Azerbaijan with compromises, “Let’s give one part, he says, in order to keep the rest, but it wants all, how can you keep one part? It wants to reach Yerevan.”
Armen Rustamyan has noticed that Levon Ter-Petrosyan speaks much of the compromises. He wants to understand what Azerbaijan surrenders; if it is interim recognition of Karabakh’s status, it doesn’t oblige Azerbaijan to recognize Karabakh’s independence, “The deployment of peacekeepers is natural, it doesn’t matter, were we struggling for deployment of peacekeepers?”
Step-by-step resolution, according to Dashnaktsutyun, is buried, and Armen Rustamyan does not agree that step-by-step option of 1997 was discussed in Kazan. Dashnaktsutyun imagines the solution to Artsakh issue by one of the provisions of Karabakh Constitution; Azerbaijan must recognize the independence of Nagorno Karabakh, which includes also Shahumyan region, which is now in Azerbaijan’s territory, “I stand by the opinion of those people and I will give my life so that it comes true.”
“Turk remains a Turk,” states Armen Rustamyan. Our neighbor, unlike Israel’s neighbors, carried out genocide and will again carry out, “Mr Levon Ter-Petrosyan doesn’t consider the issue of genocide to be a current issue, he considers that to be an issue of past, as we know his viewpoint, become reconciled.”
But we know that in Karabakh Levon Ter-Petrosyan spoke about the threat of genocide coming from Azerbaijan. Ar...
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