Journalists asked Serzh Sargsyan, the Third President of RA when you were the president, Levon Ter-Petrosyan expressed his willingness to stand by you if you went to a compromise solution; currently, you are criticized that when Nikol Pashinyan became the prime minister, you did not stand by him and did not say to compromise we are ready to stand by your side so that the Artsakh issue is resolved, on the contrary, your team said that they came to hand over the lands, are land givers.
Serzh Sargsyan answered: “You have to understand an elementary truth that they do not stand by the person, but they stand by the idea that the person carries. Levon Ter-Petrosyan saw very well that I am in favor of a compromise. Still, that compromise is within the minimum desire. These minimum conditions would allow Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia not to be humiliated, allowing the people of Artsakh to live outside of Azerbaijan.
And which idea should we stand for, the idea that said we could negotiate as we wanted? We don’t accept the idea that he said, we’re going to make ourselves crazy, we’re going to destroy this negotiation process, and we’re starting from our point? You should look at the timeline and see when those announcements were made. In addition, I have repeated several times that a person cannot think one way for 40 years and think differently in the 41st year. A person cannot get power with the help of others and not be the henchman of those others. We were restraining ourselves, saying maybe, maybe.
Reporters tried to clarify: “By asking others, do you mean from outside forces?” He did not respond.
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