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    PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA

    By Messenger Staff
    Thursday, January 17

    Armenia will vote for a president on February 18. There are 8
    candidates nominated for the presidency. The most notorious is Vardan
    Sedrakyan whose program has a very distinct anti-Georgian form. Of
    course Sedrakyan has no chance to win the elections, but the fact
    that a candidate with such a program participates in the election is
    already very alarming.

    Initially there were 15 people applying to run for the presidency
    but only 8 of them submitted to the Central Election Commission and
    provided the required financial deposit of $20, 000 USD and were
    thus registered. Sedrakyan's anti-Georgian statements were already
    known however.

    According to Sedrakyan, similar crises including Karabakh's
    independence, which Armenia supports, is the independence of Abkhazia
    and South Ossetia. He said the non-recognition of these entities as
    independent is a "serious error" committed by Armenia. He promises
    that in the case of victory he will do his best in this direction.

    Moreover, Sedrakyan thinks that there are 250, 000 Armenian ethnic
    representatives in Georgia who insist on the separation from Georgia
    of the Javakheti region where most Armenians are concentrated. As
    for Karabakh, Sedrakyan plans to declare it as an integral part of
    Armenia together with the adjacent to Karabakh Azeri territories
    which are now occupied by Armenia.

    The next step according to his plan is to take over the Nakhchevan
    autonomous region of Azerbaijan and integrate it with Armenia.

    The lunatic dreams of Sedrakyan go further. He wants to recognize
    Abkhazia as an independent entity with the capital in Kutaisi. This
    delirium of the presidential candidate really embarrasses the
    Armenian ethnic Diaspora in Georgia. Some of them commenting about
    these issues say Sedrakyan is not a politician and his participation
    in the elections is just a kind of humor. No serious politician would
    repeat what he is saying,

    Of course nobody in Georgia should seriously discuss this nonsense
    and definitely no Armenian political figure is repeating similar
    statements. They accept and recognize Georgia's territorial integrity
    and understand the real situation and friendly sentiments between
    the two neighboring nations.

    Arnold Stepanian, Chairman of the public movement Multinational
    Georgia, stated that Sedrakyan has a zero rating in Armenia. It is
    obvious that Sedrakyan will further disseminate his position when the
    election campaign starts in Armenia from January 25. Without a doubt,
    such statements are not in Armenia's interests. However, the question
    remains: who stands behind Sedrakyan and who is financing his election
    campaign and his notorious ideas?

    http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/2778_january_17_2013/2778_edit.html

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