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  • WikiLeaks Dubs Hovik Abrahamyan As Tigran Sargsyan's Main Rival

    WIKILEAKS DUBS HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN AS TIGRAN SARGSYAN'S MAIN RIVAL

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    September 5, 2011 - 18:08 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - WikiLeaks whistle blowing website has released
    another stack of cables classified by deputy head of U.S. diplomatic
    mission in Armenia Joseph Pennington after meeting with Armenian
    Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan.

    The meeting described focused on Armenia's foreign policy and internal
    reforms. According to Pennington, Abrahamyan called Prime Minister
    Tigran Sargsyan, viewed as a reformer in Armenia, "a person whose
    words don't match his actions".

    As Pennington noted, in a conversation with Sargsyan, Abrahamyan
    failed to get a clear response as to the means necessary to fight
    corruption and oligopoly.

    According to Pennington, without any noticeable sense of irony,
    he went on to ridicule the PM's asset declaration draft law that
    would require 500 senior public officials to come clean about their
    holdings and business interests.

    In his comments Pennington stressed Abrahamyan is widely considered
    one of Sargsyan's most formidable rivals, and someone who is carefully
    building up his own power base.

    "With detainees or the NGO law, for example, Abrahamyan
    likely concluded there was decent upside and limited cost to
    at least presenting himself as an advocate for inclusiveness and
    reconciliation. But where a reform agenda collides with his personal
    or political interests, as with a draft law requiring him to reveal
    his considerable business holdings, he reverts to what most suspect
    is his true, thuggish form," he said, according to cables released.

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