Armen Rustamyan: Levon Ter-Petrosyan`s position on Karabakh issue is pernicious
ArmInfo. The position of the first president and leader of the "Congress-PPA" bloc of Levon Ter-Petrosyan on the Karabakh issue is pernicious. On March 31, at a press conference in Yerevan, the candidate for deputy from ARF Dashnaktsutyun Armen Rustamyan stated. He believes that speaking of territorial concessions, Ter-Petrosyan voiced those theses that are voiced by the Azerbaijani agitprop.
At the same time, in his opinion, the Armenian society is very tolerant towards the pro-Azerbaijani propaganda of the first president, while in Azerbaijan for such representatives of the political force that is for the independence of the NKR would have long been in prison. "But the content of the proposals is fatal, since Azerbaijan wants to destroy Armenia, and does not intend to make any concessions. The highest concession on the part of Azerbaijan is the autonomy of Karabakh within Azerbaijan, which we disagree," the Dashnaktsakan noted.
Rustamyan believes that Ter-Petrosyan is not interested in the opinion of the Karabakh people, who expressed it through a referendum. "Levon Ter-Petrosyan made it his goal to impose on us a completely different concept, which does not correlate with the ideas of the people of Karabakh," the Dashnaktsakan stressed. He also does not believe the first president's statements that the proposals he voiced are an object of negotiations, in which Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan participates.
Rustamyan noted that if Azerbaijan is not going to make concessions, then there can not be concessions from the Armenian side either. At the same time, Rustamyan added that if Azerbaijan agrees to recognize Karabakh, and the process will promote, in discussing territorial issues Nagorno-Karabakh, along with Azerbaijan, has the right to raise the issue of those territories of the former Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region that remained under the control of Azerbaijan after the war.