The international community will always cite Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s speech at OSCE Summit in Astana: "In the case of Azerbaijani military aggression, Armenia will have no alternative but recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state," Vladimir Karapetyan, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Armenian National Congress (ANC) told the reporters on December 6.

According to the ANC member, the statement was a wrong message sent to the world community.

"Sargsyan’s statement will always be caused to backfire on Armenia," he noted.

"When Armenia initiates recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence, the international community will say the latter laid down conditions. I regret Armenian President made two incompatible statements within a month. In Aghdam, the President said if Azerbaijan unleashes a war, this time Armenia’s blow will be final and deadly. I have hailed this quite an adequate approach. However, declaring Armenia will have no alternative but recognize Nagorno-Karabakh if Azerbaijan provokes a military aggression, particularly, to condition the recognition process by the third party’s actions, is strange to me,” he said.

Meanwhile, Karapetyan stressed if “Heritage”-initiated bill on Karabakh’s independence is put to the vote, the Parliament should vote unanimous “yes”.

However, according to the oppositionist, recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenia is inexpedient at the moment. “If Armenia starts the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh, all the signed documents and approaches towards the conflict resolution will be called into question. “In this regard, I do not think Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) will approve of the bill,” Karapetyan concluded.