Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of RA, recalled on his Facebook page his statement made in 2013.

“The head of any country of our caliber should not, moreover, has no right to enter into the geopolitical (geopolitical) games of the superpowers.” He should not be so naive as to think that he can promise one thing to one of the superpowers and something else to the other, and achieve some kind of success thanks to this “cunning policy”.

It is not possible to conclude deals behind the back of any superpower, about which the other superpowers are not aware in all details. All the superpowers possess such powerful intelligence capabilities that small countries can hardly hide any secrets from them. Therefore, the leaders of small states should be as frank as possible with the superpowers.

Such behavior from the latter will definitely be appreciated, and even if you don’t gain anything from it, you definitely won’t lose anything. In short, speaking in the vernacular, the leader of a small country should not even think that by playing on two strings with his “beautiful hal”, he can “freak out” the greats of the world. One of those cords, and sometimes both, will inevitably end up wrapped around his neck.”

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