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HOW DASHNAKTSUTYUN WILL BECOME OPPOSITION
Lragir, Armenia
Nov 30 2006
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun voiced another
threat through Armen Rustamyan, member of the ARF Supreme Body, that
it will become opposition. This happened on November 30 at the Friday
Club when the reporters asked if the ARF disagrees with the policy of
official Yerevan on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Armen
Rustamyan said Dashnaktsutyun views the problem in a package, and
since the package is not complete, he cannot state whether he agrees
or disagrees with the policy of the government.
"We are constantly withdrawing details from the package, losing the
essence and the logic of settlement of the issue. The components of
the package are interrelated and indivisible. In order to be able to
state if this question was given a pro-Armenian or a fair solution,
you need to see the entire package. We haven't seen the package, this
is the problem. This package will be there, it will be published,
and everyone will start going into detail and assessing if in total
it is acceptable or not," stated Armen Rustamyan.
He disagrees that the present government stated on taking up power in
1998 that it will not return a patch of land. Armen Rustamyan said
no such statement was made. There were three principles: Nagorno
Karabakh cannot be an enclave, it must have a legal status equal to
that of Azerbaijan and guarantees of security. The representative
of the Supreme Body of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun says there have been
no controversies between the policy of this government and the
approaches of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun. If controversies occur after
the situation becomes fully clear, Dashnaktsutyun knows what its next
step is going to be. "What will we be doing? What were we doing when
Levon Ter-Petrosyan was president? We will become opposition, because
we wanted to change the trajectory. We are saying that in 1998 the
trajectory changed, the national trajectory changed. This change of
trajectory is clear, it must be aimed at clear aims, the vector should
be visible," Armen Rustamyan said. If there is a difference of line,
Dashnaktsutyun cannot be inside or beside the government that follows
this trajectory.
Lragir, Armenia
Nov 30 2006
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun voiced another
threat through Armen Rustamyan, member of the ARF Supreme Body, that
it will become opposition. This happened on November 30 at the Friday
Club when the reporters asked if the ARF disagrees with the policy of
official Yerevan on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Armen
Rustamyan said Dashnaktsutyun views the problem in a package, and
since the package is not complete, he cannot state whether he agrees
or disagrees with the policy of the government.
"We are constantly withdrawing details from the package, losing the
essence and the logic of settlement of the issue. The components of
the package are interrelated and indivisible. In order to be able to
state if this question was given a pro-Armenian or a fair solution,
you need to see the entire package. We haven't seen the package, this
is the problem. This package will be there, it will be published,
and everyone will start going into detail and assessing if in total
it is acceptable or not," stated Armen Rustamyan.
He disagrees that the present government stated on taking up power in
1998 that it will not return a patch of land. Armen Rustamyan said
no such statement was made. There were three principles: Nagorno
Karabakh cannot be an enclave, it must have a legal status equal to
that of Azerbaijan and guarantees of security. The representative
of the Supreme Body of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun says there have been
no controversies between the policy of this government and the
approaches of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun. If controversies occur after
the situation becomes fully clear, Dashnaktsutyun knows what its next
step is going to be. "What will we be doing? What were we doing when
Levon Ter-Petrosyan was president? We will become opposition, because
we wanted to change the trajectory. We are saying that in 1998 the
trajectory changed, the national trajectory changed. This change of
trajectory is clear, it must be aimed at clear aims, the vector should
be visible," Armen Rustamyan said. If there is a difference of line,
Dashnaktsutyun cannot be inside or beside the government that follows
this trajectory.