Former President: This is the time for us to make hard, painful  decisions.

ArmInfo. This is the time for us to make hard, painful decisions. First President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan in an interview with the Public Television of  Armenia expressed a similar opinion.

As he said, we have to sign agreements with both Azerbaijan and  Turkey. "No one will like this. But there is one moment when there is  no alternative. If we do not sign any agreement, if we do not come to  an agreement with the neighbors who "love us very much", we will no  longer be able to restore the realities of the last 70 years. We will  again have to build a new state stone by stone, work, build this  country", the former president said.

At the same time, he stressed that the overwhelming majority of the  opposition is of the opinion that with the resignation of Nikol  Pashinyan from the post of prime minister, it will be possible to  exclude the adoption of painful decisions. <It's naive to think so.  "Whoever replaces him will probably have to sign a worse document,"  he said. 

Ter-Petrosyan noted that there are no two neighboring countries in  the world that do not have a peace treaty. To the interviewer's  remark that this is more of a capitulation agreement than a peace  treaty, the former president of the RA agreed, indicating that  stronger states in history have gone through something like this. At  the same time, he explained that circumstances led to the surrender,  including the aggression of the enemy and the mistakes of the  authorities.  

The former president also noted that if the internal contradictions  continue and everyone considers himself the next president of  Armenia, the situation will worsen, the state will weaken, and the  demands of Turkey and Azerbaijan will increase. <If we continue in  the same way, then within six months, we will not have a state>, he  said.