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    SIX ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES MERGE AHEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL POLLS

    Public TV, Armenia
    Feb 6 2008

    [Presenter ] The election alliance which supports Vazgen Manukyan
    [Armenian presidential candidate and leader of the opposition National
    Democratic Union] is a party now. The National Democratic Union has
    enlarged - the Union of National Democrats and the National Democratic
    Party, which earlier separated from the National Democratic Union,
    as well as the National State, the National Unity Oath Party and the
    Union of Constitutional Law have joined the National Democratic Union.

    [Correspondent over video of the meeting] The political group of
    six is being photographed and is saying toasts to the future. Their
    merger took place today - the National Democratic Union, the National
    Democratic Party, the Union of National Democrats, the National State,
    National Unity Oath Party and the Union of Constitutional Law solemnly
    announced this today. This was the only announcement on the agenda,
    and the only speaker was the presidential candidate, Vazgen Manukyan.

    [Vazgen Manukyan] We propose systematic changes in our programme
    related both to the constitution and changes both in the political and
    economic systems. I am sure that this is inevitable, no matter what
    the outcome of the election is, it is inevitable. This path will be
    simply imposed on us from the outside. It will be imposed from outside,
    because we will have challenges which we will not be able to respond
    to under these conditions. That is the step which we have included
    in our programme, it is not only an issue by which we differ from
    other candidates, we see the future and are moving towards the future.

    [Correspondent] Vazgen Manukyan said that the 20th anniversary of the
    Karabakh movement is approaching and that one needed to close that
    page of history and to open a new one. Whether we want it or not,
    we should enter a new phase, Manukyan said.

    [Manukyan] While foreseeing this phase we, the six parties, have
    decided that we will establish in a united way a new party which will
    be based on national democratic principles, ideology and philosophy.

    [Correspondent] The presidential candidate said that negotiations
    are under way with other parties as well. They will have a union in
    which there will be no discipline characteristic of a party, it will
    be a free party of free people.

    [Manukyan] We do not want this party to become a party of one person
    or of a group. It should be a horizontal, network party in which
    everyone committed to national and democratic principles will be able
    to express themselves and be able to take part in our political life.

    Without this the state cannot develop.

    [Correspondent] A union based on national and democratic principles
    will not use weaknesses of human soul, like, Manukyan said, the
    opponents are doing.

    [Manukyan] I am calling for the closure with honour this 20-year page
    and to open with pride a new page of the next 20 years.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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