YEREVAN. - Second ex-president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, is not going to meet with current President Serzh Sargsyan.

To the question of Tert.am correspondent on whether the second president is also planning to have a meeting similar to the one which took place  between Serzh Sargsyan and first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan on April 9, Kocharyan said: “I don’t plan to initiate such a meeting. In light of the developments and considering the experience obtained at high cost, currently it’s much more important to immediately solve the issue of providing the army with modern equipment and quickly adapt the military and tactical readiness of the staff to the new condition.”  

According to Kocharyan, the meeting of the current and former presidents is unlikely to have somehow impacted the solution of these practical priority issues.

“It’s encouraging that the Armenian society once again showed that it is able to unite against aggression in case of serious external danger. [But] It’s also apparent that the patriotic potential doubles when it is based on modern combat-ready army and efficiently operating state institutions,” Kocharyan said.

On April 9, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan met with ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan upon the latter’s initiative. The talks which lasted for about an hour exclusively related to the latest developments on the Karabakh-Azerbaijani Line of Contact, future developments expected in the negotiation process aimed at Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as the necessity of intra-national unification against those challenges. The meeting took place in Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s house.