Agreed to not harm each other?
According to head of "Heritage" party's faction Stepan Safaryan, the part about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Levon Ter-Petrosyan's interview to BBC reminds one of the Madrid Principles.
" "Heritage" doesn't accept that," announced Safaryan. He also mentioned that he shares Ter-Petrosyan's view that the closest resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was in 1997 and says all three Armenian presidents have the same view on the conflict resolution.
Safaryan also finds that it is currently dangerous to get into a debate over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. According to him, the closer the elections, the more Armenia will see attacks from all sides and the ones organizing those attacks will be the great powers.
Safaryan also views the Turkey-Armenia Protocols in the same subtext.
"The Turkish authorities are trying to put the Turkey-Armenia Protocols up for a bid to the U.S. and to the EU."
Safaryan doesn't expect U.S. President Barack Obama to pronounce the word "genocide" in his April 24 address, but he does expect Serzh Sargsyan to do what he had promised a year ago and call back his signatures on the Protocols.
Safaryan predicts that the fact that the events of 27 October 1999 have not been revealed will be announced on the threshold of the elections by certain forces and organizations that are pursuing specific goals.
In response to "A1+"'s question, Stepan Safaryan also touched upon Levon Ter-Petrosyan's meeting with Raffi Hovhannisian at the Pantheon of Komitas on April 17. Does this mean that "Heritage" and the ANC might team up?
"We don't believe issues to unite are discussed on the street, much less without any agreement," said Safaryan. The latter says he doesn't know what the two discussed, but predicted that they might have talked about the situation that was created in the past 9 months.
"Before that meeting, "Heritage" and its many ANC partners had discussed the issue of not causing harm to each other, if they are not able to team up."
Safaryan also mentioned that he wasn't too interested in that meeting.
"If it were very important and referred to moving relations between opposition forces at a new level, our party would have convened a special board session," said Safaryan.
