“The policy of Serzh Sargsyan in regard of the Armenian-Turkish relations is more flexible than Ter-Petrosyan’s policy,” yesterday such a statement was made by a political scientist Stepan Grigoryan. He added that although Ter-Petrosyan wasn’t saying that Armenia was willing to start cooperation with Turkey without pre-conditions but his policy implied that. As of the NKR conflict resolution then Grigoryan sees qualitative change ever since the resignation of Ter-Petrosyan. In Grigoryan’s words, if the first president of Armenia was saying that the NKR is a negotiating party then during the tenure of Kocharyan the NKR was ousted from the negotiation process and the NKR conflict has mechanically begun a territorial conflict. “Now the current president, although slowly, but starts to distance from this policy. In the current situation Serzh Sargsyan returns to a policy, by which the NKR is viewed as a self-determining unit,” said oppositionist Grigoryan.
