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Ter-Petrosyan waits for superpowers' answer to decide presidency plan
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2012/12/22/ter-petrosyan/
12:55 - 22.12.12
Armenia's first president and current leader of the opposition
Armenian National Congress (ANC), Levon Ter-Petrosyan, has
circumvented a question on his plan to run for president.
In a speech at the Government's session hall on Saturday, the
ex-president focused more on Armenia's foreign policy challenges. As
for whether he will stand as a candidate in the upcoming election,
Ter-Petrosyan asked the participants to waiti for a couple of more
days.
`Don't you expect me to do anything else?' he said. `I am going to
disappointed you by not saying anything. I am waiting. I have applied
to the superpowers, and unless I have an answer I will not put forward
[my candidacy]. So wait a couple of more days; all the superpowers
have promised to give an answer.'
The remark was made at the Armenian pan-National Movement's 17th
congress which kicked off earlier today. In his opening speech, the
head of the party's political board Aram Manukyan, said apart from the
ruling political forces, they had also invited all the parliamentary
and extra-parliamentary parties to the event.
The meeting was attended by members of the opposition Armenian
Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun, the Heritage party and leaders
of the political parties represented in the opposition alliance. No
representatives from the Prosperous Armenia party were present. Nikol
Pashinyan, an active ANC member who was jailed over the March 2008
post-electoral unrest (which claimed eight lives, leaving scores of
others injured) did not attend the meeting either.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2012/12/22/ter-petrosyan/
12:55 - 22.12.12
Armenia's first president and current leader of the opposition
Armenian National Congress (ANC), Levon Ter-Petrosyan, has
circumvented a question on his plan to run for president.
In a speech at the Government's session hall on Saturday, the
ex-president focused more on Armenia's foreign policy challenges. As
for whether he will stand as a candidate in the upcoming election,
Ter-Petrosyan asked the participants to waiti for a couple of more
days.
`Don't you expect me to do anything else?' he said. `I am going to
disappointed you by not saying anything. I am waiting. I have applied
to the superpowers, and unless I have an answer I will not put forward
[my candidacy]. So wait a couple of more days; all the superpowers
have promised to give an answer.'
The remark was made at the Armenian pan-National Movement's 17th
congress which kicked off earlier today. In his opening speech, the
head of the party's political board Aram Manukyan, said apart from the
ruling political forces, they had also invited all the parliamentary
and extra-parliamentary parties to the event.
The meeting was attended by members of the opposition Armenian
Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun, the Heritage party and leaders
of the political parties represented in the opposition alliance. No
representatives from the Prosperous Armenia party were present. Nikol
Pashinyan, an active ANC member who was jailed over the March 2008
post-electoral unrest (which claimed eight lives, leaving scores of
others injured) did not attend the meeting either.