Ter-Petrossian, Nagorno Karabakh & Regime Change

Archuk’s Blog, which has already asked who exactly woke up the former president, comments on reports that Levon Ter-Petrossian was recently in Moscow. The blogger says that while it’s possible the former head of state was there just for a “bowl of of borsh and a shot of Stolichnaya,” it’s more likely that the reason for the visit was far more significant.

Indeed, the blog concludes, regime change isn’t only supported from Washington, and Ter-Petrossian’s surprise arrival in Moscow might also be linked to attempts to finally find a solution to the conflict with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh.

[…] If Russians didn’t want him there in the first place,they could have told him to stay away.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts the power change does not necessarily have to be American or Russian sponsored, it could be both. […]

A question comes to my mind -’ why did LTP bring out ‘Goble’s plan’ now and what exactly is he going to do differently to the current regime. Does this public shaming mean that that was the only way of achieving Karabakh + Lachin and unless we agree to a territory exchange,we won’t get Karabakh or maybe will get the Karabakh but not the lachin corridor?

The central question for myself is what is it that he can do differently? What is it that he can do for the Great Powers that Kocharyan and Sargsyan couldn’t do? The only thing that comes to my mind is that the Karabakh solution is going to be achieved with the establishment of direct Armenian-Turkish cooperation in this matter. […] Are Turkey and Armenia going to pick pragmatism over national pride, is Turkey going to pressurize Azerbaijan to give up Karabakh and in exchange Armenia is going to stop to officially pressing for recognition of the Genocide and call on the Diaspora to follow the trend as a part of ‘Karabakh for giving up active recognition movement and officially denouncing any sort of territorial claims from Turkey’ solution?