ARMENIAN EX-LEADER TO RESTORE "STATEHOOD" IF ELECTED – JAILED NATIONALIST
Aravot
Dec 21 2007
Armenia
The former Armenian president, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who is running
for the 19 February 2008 presidential election, wants to restore
"our statehood and the constitutional order", a statement by
Zhirayr Sefilyan, coordinator of the public initiative In Defence of
Liberated Territories, has said.In a statement, issued from prison
where Sefilyan is serving a prison term for calls to overthrow the
current regime, he said he was against returning "the liberated
territories" to Azerbaijan. Sefilyan believes that if elected
president, Ter-Petrosyan would not consider the settlement of the
Karabakh problem as "priority".