LEVON TER-PETROSIAN

into office. Kocharian and others ousted Ter-Petrosian in February after Ter-Petrosian came out in favor of a Russian-backed plan to compromise with Azerbaijan on the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. President Kocharian is himself a native of Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic-Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan that has been a cause of strife for decades. Azerbaijan’s President