Head of the 2nd Armenian president’s office Viktor Soghomonyan has described first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s remarks on the “Meghri option” of Karabakh settlement as slander.

In an TV interview, Ter-Petrosyan suggested that the option of ceding the southern Armenian town of Meghri to Azerbaijan in exchange for the independence of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) has been discussed at a Key West, Florida meeting of then presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Robert Kocharyan and Heidar Aliyev in 2001.

“The issue of exchanging Meghri or any other part of Armenia has never been dicussed in Key West or elsewhere,” Soghomonyan said, describing the remark as slander and distortion of history.