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ARF-D IS DECENTRALIZED PARTY, SAYS NAGORNO-KARABAKH REP.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/03/06/davit-ishkhanyan/
20:39 ~U 06.03.13
Photo by Emedia.am
A member of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaksutyun's (ARF-D) Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Central
Committee has described the party as a decentralized political force
not meddling in electoral processes.
Speaking to Tert.am, David Ishkhanyan explained that those policies
require the ARF-D's headquarters in Artsakh and Armenia to take a
neutral stance on the presidential elections in each other's countries.
"We held a presidential election just a couple of months ago, and
the Armenian office had no intervention - direct or indirect - in
the policy line adopted by the [Nagorno-Karabakh] headquarters. And
the same goes for Armenia," he said, when asked to comment on the
party's diverging views in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
ARF-D top figures (including members of the Supreme Body and the
Bureau) periodically meet with the opposition Heritage party's leader,
Raffi Hovhannisian, who was President Serzh Sargsyan's runner-up in
the February 18 election. Different members of the party also attend
Hovhannisian's post-election rallies at Yerevan's Liberty Square
to address their messages to the people. It is noteworthy in this
context that Nagorno-Karabakh Prime Minister Arthur Aghabekyan, who is
affiliated with the party, recently called upon the people in Karabakh
to refrain from the protest demonstrations in Armenia's capital.
"That's fire which they use to play with the security of Artsakh,"
he said.
Asked whether such a posture does not reflect the ARF-Ds criticism of
its own colleagues in Armenia, Ishkhanyan recommended against linking
the premier's remark with the Armenian opposition. He said Aghabekyan
made the statement as a government official, not as a representative
of a political force.
"He mentioned clearly that he has been in both the ruling authorities
and the opposition and addressed his statuses in both Armenia and
Karabakh. Arthur Aghabekyan directs his words straightforwardly to
Artsakh and its people," he said, adding that Artsakh has never been
directly involved in presidential elections in Armenia.
Ishkhanyan noted that the premier's remark was voiced during a speech
in parliament.
In later comments to Tert.am, Vahan Hovhannesyan of the ARF-D Bureau
said he believes Aghabekyan simply wanted to warn the people in
Karabakh to avoid provokers.
"I can only guess he meant the possible provokers who are by all
means present at the square," Hovhannesyan told our reporter.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/03/06/davit-ishkhanyan/
20:39 ~U 06.03.13
Photo by Emedia.am
A member of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaksutyun's (ARF-D) Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Central
Committee has described the party as a decentralized political force
not meddling in electoral processes.
Speaking to Tert.am, David Ishkhanyan explained that those policies
require the ARF-D's headquarters in Artsakh and Armenia to take a
neutral stance on the presidential elections in each other's countries.
"We held a presidential election just a couple of months ago, and
the Armenian office had no intervention - direct or indirect - in
the policy line adopted by the [Nagorno-Karabakh] headquarters. And
the same goes for Armenia," he said, when asked to comment on the
party's diverging views in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
ARF-D top figures (including members of the Supreme Body and the
Bureau) periodically meet with the opposition Heritage party's leader,
Raffi Hovhannisian, who was President Serzh Sargsyan's runner-up in
the February 18 election. Different members of the party also attend
Hovhannisian's post-election rallies at Yerevan's Liberty Square
to address their messages to the people. It is noteworthy in this
context that Nagorno-Karabakh Prime Minister Arthur Aghabekyan, who is
affiliated with the party, recently called upon the people in Karabakh
to refrain from the protest demonstrations in Armenia's capital.
"That's fire which they use to play with the security of Artsakh,"
he said.
Asked whether such a posture does not reflect the ARF-Ds criticism of
its own colleagues in Armenia, Ishkhanyan recommended against linking
the premier's remark with the Armenian opposition. He said Aghabekyan
made the statement as a government official, not as a representative
of a political force.
"He mentioned clearly that he has been in both the ruling authorities
and the opposition and addressed his statuses in both Armenia and
Karabakh. Arthur Aghabekyan directs his words straightforwardly to
Artsakh and its people," he said, adding that Artsakh has never been
directly involved in presidential elections in Armenia.
Ishkhanyan noted that the premier's remark was voiced during a speech
in parliament.
In later comments to Tert.am, Vahan Hovhannesyan of the ARF-D Bureau
said he believes Aghabekyan simply wanted to warn the people in
Karabakh to avoid provokers.
"I can only guess he meant the possible provokers who are by all
means present at the square," Hovhannesyan told our reporter.