Special for the Armenian Weekly It is truly a sad reality that Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s name remains a relevant allotment of the Armenian political vernacular. The first President of Armenia’s current Republic,who was forced to resign in 1998—two years after the first recorded rigged elections since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991—recently spoke at the Armenian National Congress’s conference, where he accepted to lead his party’s ticket in the upcoming Parliamentary elections scheduled for April 2017. Levon Ter-Petrosyan (Photo: hraparak.am) “Ter-Petrosyan the President” was noteworthy as arguably the most unpatriotic of leaders Armenia has ever had, and while at the same time being a dream for foreign powers wanting to influence the future of Armenia and Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh/NKR). First,to the delight of these foreign powers, he displayed an open preparedness to hand back Armenian-liberated Artsakh territories without any prerequisite acknowledgement of independence. This act of benevolence would be in exchange for “peace” and “good neighborly relations” with Turkey and Azerbaijan. moment, and to pave his path to deliver such an unacceptable policy to the Armenian world,he expelled the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) and imprisoned the partys members. This was despite the fact that the ARF was and remains [...]
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