Independent Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan has insisted that the closest Armenia and Azerbaijan were to finding a full solution to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh was in 1997, but a solution then failed because of the disagreement of Karabakh Armenians.
In an interview with the BBC Russian Service aired on Monday Ter-Petrosyan, who today leads Armenia's opposition, said the Karabakh conflict could have been settled by means of ceding "certain territories" to Azerbaijan and establishing an intermediate status for Nagorno-Karabakh.
"But this did not happen, because the people of Karabakh demonstrated a maximalist approach and decided that this was too little, one could press more and get more… And not only people in Karabakh," said the ex-president, who was forced to resign in February 1998, less than half a year after presenting his vision for ending the land dispute with Azerbaijan largely called "defeatist" in Armenia and Karabakh.
Armenian News 
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