Ter-Petrossian was an honorary participant of different International conferences organized by Hillary Clinton, Rosalynn Carter, Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing and others.
It is a patronymic from the Armenian first name Petros (equivalent to Peter, making the name effectively equivalent to Peterson).
Few year after the election, Ter-Petrosyan's closest "power minister" Vano Siradeghyan claimed in an interview that Ter-Petrosyan fell into a three-month depression and that he wanted Vazgen Sargsyan and Siradeghyan to resign.