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    THE ARMY OF POLITICAL SCIENTISTS REPLENISHED AGAIN KIMA YEGHYAZARYAN

    Hayots Ashkhar Daily
    June 11, 2008
    Armenia

    "Of course I wouldn't like any political speculations over my quitting
    Dashnaktsutyun party. Because I held and continue holding the viewpoint
    that Dashnaktsutyun is one of our national values; it is one of the
    values of our political thought. It existed in the past, exists today
    and will exist in future. No divergence of opinions is possible in this
    regard. At least as far as my personality is concerned, I really can't
    imagine our political thought without Dashnaktsutyun. I possibly can't.

    It's quite a different matter that there is a certain disagreement
    with the present-day leadership of the party in terms of political
    attitudes. And this has caused us to be represented in different camps
    now," former parliamentarian ROUBEN HAKOBYAN announced in "Pastark"
    (argument) club yesterday.

    In response to the question what disagreements he had with
    Dashnaktsutyun, the speaker said, "Dashnaktsutyun would have a
    better representation if it didn't form part of the coalition. Our
    political arena would be more balanced if Dashnaktsutyun weren't a
    coalition party."

    What is, after all, the former RA Consul in St. Petersburg going to
    do after returning to Armenia? R. Hakobyan has nothing to hide because
    as a public figure, he is going to be engaged in active politics. But
    already in the status of a non-partisan. And in general, he rules
    out the possibility of becoming a member of any party.

    Mr. Hakobyan informed that a political-analytical center will soon be
    registered with the relevant state agency by his initiative; the centre
    will be engaged in political analyses and issue publicistic articles.

    Touching upon the internal political problems, the speaker again
    insisted on his well-known proposal as the only variant for overcoming
    them.

    R. Hakobyan believes that, "the post-electoral struggle is not
    over yet.

    Both the state of emergency and the subsequent developments did not
    contribute to the internal political arena to overcome the tension." As
    regards the "wondering subject", i.e. the dialogue, "unfortunately it
    did not descend from the heaven; it did not become a reality. In my
    deep conviction, the reason was that neither of the parties actually
    had a sincere desire to have a dialogue with the other."

    Although the lack of desire is obvious, there is one "plane" which, if
    made available, may enable the parties to start a dialogue. R. Hakobyan
    makes the following conclusion-prediction: "The plane on which L.

    Ter-Petrosyan and the authorities may have a dialogue is, in my
    opinion, being sketched. That is, finding one culprit who will meet
    the requirements of the two parties. It looks as though this culprit
    were Robert Kocharyan, as the former President. And it looks as though
    this might enable the parties to start a dialogue.

    Why? Because during the pan-national congress they dropped a very plain
    hint that the President had nothing in common with the March 1 events."

    Substantiating his conclusion-prediction, the speaker also noted,
    "I don't think any representative of the authorities would be against
    this scenario."

    Despite the prediction, the author believes that considering
    R. Kocharyan responsible for and guilty of all this is not a requisite
    condition for initiating a dialogue "so as it would be possible to
    make an accurate assessment on the existing situation and enable the
    state to overcome the tension through a dialogue."

    So, there is one way out. "To organize extraordinary presidential
    and parliamentary elections and hold them no sooner than in a year
    and no later than in half a year."
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