ArmInfo. Ex-Foreign Minister and candidate from the pre-electoral bloc "Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian" Vardan Oskanian does not understand to whom the complaints of the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan on the Karabakh issue are addressed. He stated this at a press conference in Yerevan.
"A year has passed since he confessed to the loyalty to the ruling authorities and expressed his support for Serzh Sargsyan on the Karabakh issue, therefore, they could both make territorial concessions and an acceptable settlement for the president, but Ter-Petrosyan makes claims not to those persons to directly address Sargsyan," Oskanian said. According to him, the authorities are so useless that even if they want, they will not be able to properly transfer the territories to Azerbaijan and Ter-Petrosyan understands this.
He also added that the defeatist approaches of the first president are unacceptable for him. "We are in favor of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country," the ex-minister said, adding that Ter-Petrosyan's statements about Oskanian's and second president Robert Kocharian's readiness to give to Azerbaijan the Meghri corridor in exchange for some territories do not correspond to reality.
To note, the bloc headed by Ter-Petrosyan, the "Congress-People's Party", is the only force participating in the electoral campaign, which stands for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict through territorial concessions. Moreover, the leader of the bloc and the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan assures that now the Armenian and Azerbaijani authorities are negotiating precisely this. He also predicts an early resolution of the Karabakh conflict, which, in his opinion, hampers the development of Armenia and Artsakh. Ter- Petrosyan also expressed readiness to assist all political forces that implement the peace program, including the ruling Republican Party of Armenia.