SERZH SARGSYAN MADE 2 MISTAKES AT PACE SESSION: ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

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06.24.2011

During the Jun. 22 Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe
(PACE) session, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan allowed for two major
mistakes, said Armenian National Congress (HAK) senior representative
Levon Zurabyan at a press conference in Yerevan today.

“The first mistake was that he said that Armenia doesn’t recognize
Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence since it respects Azerbaijan’s
territorial integrity. I hope that this statement was simply a slip-up
on his part, and it should be quickly rectified. On this matter,
[HAK leader Levon] Ter-Petrossian very clearly said in his interview
to Moskovskiye Novosti [Moscow News]… that the only reason Armenia
doesn’t recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh today is that
it doesn’t want to undermine peace talks,” he said.

The Armenian leader’s second mistake, according to Zurabyan, was
the statement that if war breaks out today, Azerbaijan will have
the advantage since Armenia has not prepared its people for war as
has Azerbaijan.

“First, why hasn’t [Armenia] prepared [for war] if there is a
situation of war and second, the chief commander of the Republic of
Armenia shouldn’t make such a statement. It increases the demand for
aggression by Azerbaijan,” he said.