YEREVAN, DECEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. A terrible thing took place at the Athens meeting of the Foreign Ministers, Armenia accepted that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict should be settled on the basis of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. Armenian National Congress Coordinator Levon Zurabian declaring this at a December 4 press conference mentioned that Artsakh people's self-determination is the most important issue, and to raise it independent Armenia's first authorities placed the issue on OSCE's agenda where Armenia had veto. L. Zurabian reminded that under the first President many proposals were also made with the content of the statement adopted in Athens but the President used his veto. And today, according to L. Zurabian, the Armenian authorities mention that the signed document also has the principle of nations' self-determination forgetting that Azerbaijan has been always ready to solve that problem by that principle but within the framework of territorial integrity, which means Karabakh's high autonomy as part of Azerbaijan. Responding to journalists' observation that L. Ter-Petrosian told about Artsakh's autonomy as part of Azerbaijan as early as in 1994 in his interview to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper L. Zurabian mentioned that President's all statements were aimed at ensuring the military security then. In his words, with such statements the former authorities ensured their victory, and the current authorities with pompous expressions go to a defeat. L. Zurabian refused to comment upon President Serzh Sargsyan's speech at the RPA last convention mentioning that the opposition is interested not in the statements but in the actions of the authorities. "If they do not release the 15 political prisoners their statements on solidarity are not worth a penny," he noted.

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