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    KOCHARYAN LEAVES, BUT FOR HOW LONG?
    JAMES HAKOBYAN

    http://www.lragir.am/src/index.php?id=lr ahos||country&pid=15063
    13:15:35 - 03/09/2009

    After Serge Sargsyan assumed the office of the president of Armenia,
    the Armenian second president Robert Kocharyan used to participate in
    different events accompanying Serge Sargsyan. He often gave interviews
    giving formal answers to the accusations in his address during Levon
    Ter-Petrosyan's rallies of the opposition but his answers were mainly
    directed to Serge Sargsyan.

    Robert Kocharyan was trying to show that regardless he had left his
    office but he still kept the levers of the government. But it lasted
    for a short time and after, Robert Kocharyan started not to appear
    at the events with the participation of the leadership and Serge
    Sargsyan and he did not hold interviews either. Moreover, Robert
    Kocharyan started to appear on the media only in the context with
    his hunting trips or other personal interests. The impression was
    as if Serge Sargsyan wanted to show that he had eliminated Robert
    Kocharyan's influence on the governmental system.

    Television remembered about Robert Kocharyan when on August 31 he
    celebrated his 55th anniversary. A part of the TV channels was telling
    Robert Kocharyan's biography in this connection and about the years
    of his tenure naturally under the positive light according to the
    best traditions. All this is possible to have aroused excitement in
    Robert Kocharyan because suddenly he decided to go and to participate
    in events dedicated to the Karabakh Independence Day standing near
    the leadership and Serge Sargsyan.

    But maybe not the TV reports but the Armenian-Turkish protocols
    appeared on the foreign ministry website during the TV reports excited
    Robert Kocharyan. Anyway, the fact is that Robert Kocharyan who left
    the events of the leadership is coming back. But it is symbolic that
    Robert Kocharyan came back just when very dynamic and hot developments
    are taking place in the Armenian and Turkish relations which will
    touch upon the Karabakh conflict too.

    What does Robert Kocharyan want to say with his return? Does he support
    Serge Sargsyan's policy with this action? Or he comes to say that
    no one has to worry about this policy as until he exists everything
    will be done the way he wants. And he, as he mentioned one year ago,
    does not want Gul to "come" to Armenia. Though Robert Kocharyan is not
    ruled out to have changed his mind. Anyway, his return does not create
    many possibilities to make judgments in this connection and Robert
    Kocharyan had better restart holding interviews to clarify his aims.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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