IT IS EXTREMELY FAVORABLE TO INCUMBENT AUTHORITIES TO SIGN PROPOSED PACKAGE ON KARABAKH CONFLICT’S SETTLEMENT: ARMENIAN MP

Yerevan, December 14. ArmInfo. "The politicians and experts who think
that it is unfavorable to the incumbent authorities to sign a package
of documents providing for the referendum for the status of Karabakh
only in 15 years are mistaken," said independent parliamentary Hmayak
Hovhannissyan at political discussions at the Armenian Center for
National and International Studies, Thursday.

He said if the incumbent leadership of Armenia represented by President
Robert Kocharyan and Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan signs an agreement
on return of the part of the territories to Azerbaijan in exchange for
conduct of the referendum in NKR in future, they will secure their
reelection for the next term. It is evident that the international
community will need guarantees of fulfillment of the agreements
signed. Hence, one of these guarantees will be the presence of the
very authorities who made the concessions, he said.