The return to Azerbaijan of five districts that form a cordon sanitaire around Nagorno-Karabah has been agreed, according to Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
The leader of the opposition Armenian National Congress told a rally in Yerevan yesterday that the framework agreement being drawn up on a Karabakh settlement would allow the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents to save face at home.
He said that this explained reports that the framework agreement would include the points on which the sides had yet to reach agreement. "As we speak, the return to Azerbaijan of five out of seven districts that form a cordon sanitaire around the Nagorno-Karabakh republic is practically resolved. The remaining issues – the deployment of peacekeepers, control of the Lachin corridor and the Nagorno-Karabakh republic's status – will be stipulated as follows in the framework agreement: the stance of both sides will be fixed in the document, which will allow them to interpret everything in their own way. We can already see how differently the Armenian and Azerbaijani authorities describe the right to self-determination and the maintenance of territorial integrity,” former President Ter-Petrosyan said.
There is an impression from the last meeting of the Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani presidents in Sochi in January that the parties found the key to solve the remaining disagreements too. "All will be revealed in the near future," Ter-Petrosyan concluded.
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