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    Opposition politician predicts impending change of power in Armenia

    Arminfo
    13 Aug 05

    Yerevan, 13 August: "A change of power in Armenia is approaching and
    it will be unexpected for many, but not for our party," the deputy
    chairman of the opposition National Unity Party [NUP], Aleksan
    Karapetyan, said at a press conference today.

    He promised the participants in the meeting that the budget will
    quickly grow after his party comes to power, pointing to Georgia's
    example. Asked by our Arminfo correspondent whether his party expects
    considerable support from Western organizations, which the Georgian
    opposition received, Karapetyan stressed that party chairman Artashes
    Gegamyan's sharp criticism of "foreign moral teachers" concerned
    exclusively the head of the OSCE mission in Armenia, Vladimir
    Pryakhin. The NUP is in favour of relations with international
    organizations.

    Moreover, he expressed his confidence that it is impossible
    to change the political environment in Armenia without Western
    support. Karapetyan said that the West's "soft" criticism of the
    2003 presidential election in Armenia is a result of the Armenian
    authorities' pledge to make considerable concessions on the Karabakh
    issue. Nevertheless, Karapetyan is sure that the current authorities
    will not make any serious concessions and the West, in turn, will
    bring the Armenian opposition to power.

    [Passage omitted: minor details]
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