VARTAN OSKANIAN "FOUND NOT A SINGLE NEW IDEA" IN THE FOREIGN POLICY SECTION OF LEVON TER-PETROSIANÂ~@~YS PRE-ELECTION PROGRAM

Mediamax
January 9, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated
in Yerevan today that "he found not a single new idea" in the foreign
policy section of the pre-election program of the Ex-President Levon
Ter-Petrosian.

Mediamax reports that, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan
today, Vartan Oskanian stated that he hoped to get familiar with
the new approaches of the first President, since the latter actively
criticized the foreign policy course of the present authorities in
the course of the recent months.

"However, I found no novelty", the Minister admitted.

Commenting on the statements of the Ex-President’s supporters,
according to which today the Armenian authorities hold talks on the
settlement of the Karabakh conflict basing on a model, similar to
the one, which was supported by Levon Ter-Petrosian in 1997, Vartan
Oskanian started:

"In the proposal, which was supported by Ter-Petrosian, there was not
a single hint on recognition of the right of the Nagorno-Karabakhi
people for self-determination. In the second variant, which we are
discussing today, this right is the central point and it is written
there in black and white".

Besides, Vartan Oskanian stated, "the people of Nagorno-Karabakh would
never accept the variant of the settlement, which was supported by
the Ex-President".

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