"Sooner or later we will have to settle this conflict. We need a way out, and the international community will not tolerate the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh much longer."
Levon Ter-Petrosyan · 1997-11-01
Levon Ter-Petrosyan's article "War or Peace? Time to Be Serious," published in the official daily Hayastani Hanrapetutiun on 1 November 1997, defending the OSCE Minsk Group's phased settlement plan. The article precipitated the resignation crisis of February 1998.