First President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan said at the congress of the Armenian National Congress, which will lead the election list of the party, reports “Armenia News”.
“If it is decided to participate in the elections, then the list, naturally, will head. The presence of the Congress in Parliament needs at least so that the atmosphere of the ubiquitous Caucophony, as I have already noted, the beam of common sense did not go out,” he said .
Former president of Armenia said that he would speak briefly because he had not yet fully recovered. He chose a self-interview as a format. The first question that Levon Ter-Petrosyan asked himself, what is the true cause of defeat in the Karabakh war?
“We ourselves attracted the defeat on our heads, as a result of the adventurous and irresponsible policies of the authorities held over the past 23 years. The basis of the defeat was laid out in 1998 on the false faith in the possibility of preserving the status quo and the principle not to give up the lands. And the completion of the defeat announced Nikol Pashinyan with its provocative statement “Karabakh is Armenia and Point.” And it became the end of Armenia, the end of Karabakh. For 23 years, our authorities did not take into account the three most important factors of realistic policies: the balance of strength, the presence or absence of allies and, The most important thing is the irreversibility of time. The truth is that if something is possible today, it will not necessarily be possible tomorrow. This is a very simple thing that our authorities did not understand, this is an alphabet policy.
In other words, for 23 years, our authorities behaved like gambling players, making new bets, trying to win more, and therefore losing what they have already won. I do not want to go into details because I intends to prepare an extensive article dedicated to this problem, “said Levon Ter-Petrosyan.