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    AT THAT TIME SERGE SARGSYAN COULD NOT EVEN THINK

    Lragir, Armenia
    Nov 15 2006

    "... I did not start considering compromise in 2001, I have been
    considering it since the early 1990s. I considered compromise when
    I persuaded our squads, our guys that it is necessary to destroy
    a number of emplacements and the security area never intended to
    enlarge the territory of Armenia and Karabakh." This is a passage
    from the address of the defense minister of Karabakh during the
    hearings on the Karabakh issue at the National Assembly of Armenia,
    when he answered the questions of the participants of the hearings.

    Did Serge Sargsyan speak about compromise, in other words, the return
    of the liberated territories in the early 90s, during the war when
    battles for these territories were going on? On November 15 this
    question was asked to Arkady Karapetyan, former commander of the
    Karabakh war at the Hayeli Club, who was one of the persons who made
    decisions on the military actions.

    "If you told a soldier they were going to take something to return
    later, he would not fight. He is not a fool. He lives once and he
    would not want to die for something which would be returned later by
    someone else. This is very simple. As to us, the leaders, the fighers,
    and so on, this did not occur to anyone," says Arkady Karapetyan. He
    says the territories were liberated because they belonged to us, and
    the Armenian soldiers fought with this idea in their minds, unlike
    the Azerbaijanis, who started living in these teritories in the 1940s,
    therefore they fled during the war because they thought this territory
    did not belong to them, says the leader of the Yerkrapahs of Karabakh.

    Arkady Karapetyan says he is unaware of Serge Sargsyan's likelihood
    regarding the compromise "as long ago as in the 90s". "At that time,
    they did not think about these things, they did what they were told
    to do from somewhere else. Now he has started thinking in retrospect
    what he was doing. At that time he could not say such a thing. At that
    time he was too little to say such things," stated Arkady Karapetyan.
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