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ONE MORE DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL PARTY WAS CREATED
Aravot
June 20 2009
Armenia
Yesterday at the Tekeyan Cultural Centre a founding meeting of
the Armenakan-Ramkavar Azatakan (Armenakan Democratic Liberal)
party was held which was a closed event for reporters. Asked by
Aravot newspaper how could the party's founding meeting be closed,
Azg editor Hakob Avetikyan, who was present at the meeting, said:
"It was not a closed meeting, it was simply a working meeting therefore
media was not invited."
Our further conversation clarified that Avetikyan was present at
the meeting as a Democratic Liberal party (DLP) representative -
"simply it belongs to the same ideology therefore I am present here
and I welcome it". We learned that the initiative group comprised
Azg daily analyst Armen Manvelyan, Gayane Muradyan and other people
whose names we could not find out. In an interview with Aravot, Armen
Manvelyan assured that they did not act in a closed and confidential
mode, that everything was public and even a press release would be
distributed at yesterday's closed meeting. Asked to what extent the
rumours (which, in particular, "competitor" DLP is spreading) that
the Armenakan Democratic Liberal Party had been established with the
sponsorship of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan corresponded to reality,
Manvelyan replied that those were gossips and had no links to reality.
Manvelyan did not want to say what the goal of the party was,
the necessity of establishing one more Democratic Liberal party
and reply other similar questions. "We will distribute a press
release. Today it is simply a working discussion and we refrain from
making comments." Asked how the founding meeting could be a working
meeting at the same time, Manvelyan replied: "The initiative group
convenes a founding meeting."
Another member of the initiative group, Gayane Muradyan, said: "When
the Dashnaks [Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutyun] hold
a closed meeting you do not ask them questions. Everything is open. We
shall provide you with information afterwards. Our working procedures
are not of interest for you and do not aggravate the situation."
Incidentally, cameramen of Public TV Channel 1 and Channel 2 were
allowed to film in the meeting hall. Other reporters got indignant over
the fact, to which Gayane Muradyan replied: "They have been invited
by the president's office. We have not invited them. The president
has sent a message." Even reporters of Public TV channels were not
allowed to be present at the meeting. "It is not of your concern. We
shall send a press release," the initiators said.
The head of the Culture Department at the Pedagogical University,
Ruben Mirzakhanyan, participated in the meeting as a guest.
PS. Later we learnt that Armen Manvelyan had been elected acting
leader of the Armenakan Democratic Liberal Party.
Aravot
June 20 2009
Armenia
Yesterday at the Tekeyan Cultural Centre a founding meeting of
the Armenakan-Ramkavar Azatakan (Armenakan Democratic Liberal)
party was held which was a closed event for reporters. Asked by
Aravot newspaper how could the party's founding meeting be closed,
Azg editor Hakob Avetikyan, who was present at the meeting, said:
"It was not a closed meeting, it was simply a working meeting therefore
media was not invited."
Our further conversation clarified that Avetikyan was present at
the meeting as a Democratic Liberal party (DLP) representative -
"simply it belongs to the same ideology therefore I am present here
and I welcome it". We learned that the initiative group comprised
Azg daily analyst Armen Manvelyan, Gayane Muradyan and other people
whose names we could not find out. In an interview with Aravot, Armen
Manvelyan assured that they did not act in a closed and confidential
mode, that everything was public and even a press release would be
distributed at yesterday's closed meeting. Asked to what extent the
rumours (which, in particular, "competitor" DLP is spreading) that
the Armenakan Democratic Liberal Party had been established with the
sponsorship of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan corresponded to reality,
Manvelyan replied that those were gossips and had no links to reality.
Manvelyan did not want to say what the goal of the party was,
the necessity of establishing one more Democratic Liberal party
and reply other similar questions. "We will distribute a press
release. Today it is simply a working discussion and we refrain from
making comments." Asked how the founding meeting could be a working
meeting at the same time, Manvelyan replied: "The initiative group
convenes a founding meeting."
Another member of the initiative group, Gayane Muradyan, said: "When
the Dashnaks [Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutyun] hold
a closed meeting you do not ask them questions. Everything is open. We
shall provide you with information afterwards. Our working procedures
are not of interest for you and do not aggravate the situation."
Incidentally, cameramen of Public TV Channel 1 and Channel 2 were
allowed to film in the meeting hall. Other reporters got indignant over
the fact, to which Gayane Muradyan replied: "They have been invited
by the president's office. We have not invited them. The president
has sent a message." Even reporters of Public TV channels were not
allowed to be present at the meeting. "It is not of your concern. We
shall send a press release," the initiators said.
The head of the Culture Department at the Pedagogical University,
Ruben Mirzakhanyan, participated in the meeting as a guest.
PS. Later we learnt that Armen Manvelyan had been elected acting
leader of the Armenakan Democratic Liberal Party.