“I am inclined to think that Serzh Sargsyan will sign the Madrid document proposed by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs as an ultimatum, a document that provides for immediate return of five regions around Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan,” Levon Ter-petrosyan, Chairman of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC), stated at a rally in Yerevan on April 6.
The Armenian President has a hard choice to make: either signing the Madrid document, which will evoke a violent reaction on the part of both the present and the former partners in the ruling coalition, or reject it in order to gain time. In any case, he will have to go back on his promises to the international community and find himself under serious international pressure, the opposition leader said.
“The irony is that Serzh Sargsyan will lose power in any case. But I am inclined to think he will sign the document, as in this case he will at least get guarantees of personal security, including political asylum from the international community,” Ter-Petrosyan added.
The ANC leader also stressed that there is no sense in talking about the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations now, as this process is immediately linked to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. “We have repeatedly stated that, and our forecasts are coming true,” he said.
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