Levon Ter-Petrosyan responded to appeal of Armenian intelligentsia to  RA authorities and  international community on Karabakh issue

ArmInfo.First president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, responded to the call of the Armenian intelligentsia to the RA authorities and the international community  to resume the negotiation process on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.

Thus, in the statement of the first President of the Republic of  Armenia, published on his Facebook page, in particular, it is noted:  "Today, on March 2, the press published an appeal of eighty Armenian  representatives of the intelligentsia (academicians, corresponding  members of the National Academy of Sciences, doctors of sciences,  candidates, etc.) to the international community, the co-chairs of  the OSCE Minsk Group, as well as the executive and legislative  authorities of Armenia, with a call to take "immediate" measures to  resume the negotiation process on the settlement of the  Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the de-occupation of the occupied  territories of Artsakh, to return to their homes citizens who have  lost their homeland. I apologize for my indiscretion, but I urge  respected representatives of the intelligentsia to read the following  excerpt from the memoirs of Avetik Isahakyan.

In this vein, Ter-Petrosyan published the following excerpt from the  memoirs of Avetik Isahakyan: "After many years of absence from the  Caucasus, when I returned to my homeland, I found my old friend Leo  in Yerevan, prematurely aged and in poor health, but in his soul he  was the same oak in the mountains of Karabakh. We talked at the desk  until late at night. He talked about his childhood, Shushi, old and  new Karabakh, life of meliks, catholicoses, khans, wars, writers...  The horror and tragedy of the Armenian people in the Great War filled  his soul. He was crushed by the weight of this unbearable grief.  "Only in the grave I will forget this grief. But who is to blame?"   he said to me - We are to blame, we are representatives of the  intelligentsia, activists, me and you, and all of them. Our people  are innocent. And we were so stupid, ignorant, that we believed in  selfish, dramatic-bourgeois Europe, for which the life of sheep is  more precious than the life of Armenians, small oppressed peoples.  We, who, like children, believed in the conscience of enlightened  mankind, the corrupt international press, canine diplomats. We, who  created and nurtured the parties, in which the arrogance,  boastfulness, genocidal ignorance of the Armenian intelligentsia were  embodied. Isahakyan, From My Memoirs (1933)".

In this vein, the first President of Armenia expressed his deep  conviction that if the intelligentsia, who signed this message, had  listened to the wisdom of Leo, had the courage to publicly appeal to  the Armenian authorities with a request to resolve the Karabakh issue  on the basis of compromises, the Armenian people would not be in such  a deplorable situation today.