EX-SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT DECLARES OF POSSIBLE LIMITATION OF ARMENIA'S SOVEREIGNTY

PanARMENIAN.Net - YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. Head of the Center of Democracy and Civil Society Development "Armat", ex-speaker of the Armenian parliament Babken Ararktsian said today at a press conference in Yerevan that under the pretext of the resolution of the Karabakh conflict a "geopolitical reorganization" of the region is taking place.

As a result of this, Ararktsian thinks, Turkey will get land communication with the so-called "continental" Azerbaijan through Meghri corridor, which, as it is expected, will be given special status. Ex-speaker is sure that this is fraught with limitation of the sovereignty of Armenia. He specifically noted that the administration of Armenian ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosian would never have gone to such step.

Babken Ararktsian stated that Robert Kocharian gave the agreement for "geopolitical reorganization of the region" as early as in 1997, visiting Paris in the status of the Prime Minister of Armenia.

Babken Ararktsian sent in his resignation from the post of the speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia in February 1998, after President Levon Ter-Petrosian.

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