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ARMENIA'S FIRST PRESIDENT TER-PETROSYAN WARNS AGAIN ANTI-RUSSIAN RHETORIC
YEREVAN, September 10. /ARKA/. The first president of Armenia and
leader of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon
Ter-Petrosyan called upon his supporters to avoid anti-Russian rhetoric
in connection with the situation around official Yerevan's decision
to join the Russia-initiated Customs Union.
"Today I see there is a danger for us. Recently Serzh Sargsyan was
being presented as a broadminded pro-Western politician, whereas we
were portrayed as obscure pro-Russian forces. Now, after Sargsyan
turned around 180 degrees, the same forces are trying to label us as
Russophobes", Ter-Petrosyan said at an ANC board meeting.
The first president reminded he warned against both an-Russian and
anti-Western moods many times.
No ANC leader should make any outrageous statement against Russia,
its people or Putin, Ter-Petrosyan said.
"We should realize we are not a marginal and irresponsible element,
but an alternate serious institutional political force having a full
understanding of state responsibility", the first president said.
According to Ter-Petrosyan, after having received an offer from Europe
to sign an association agreement, Sargsyan should have met with Putin
and told him "Europe offers this, what could you offer in response".
"It is a natural partnership diplomatic obligation, and if the
outcome anyway should be the membership in the customs union, it
would be a more worthy and more advantageous partnership and Armenia
would gain much more than in the current humiliating situation",
Ter-Petrosyan said.
Yet, according to Ter-Petrosyan, Brussels would not burn bridges with
Armenia, will not give up "flirting" with it and will keep hoping
for a success in future.
The ex-president also said he cannot make assessments
of the customs union before professional economists
study its limitations and advantages.-0- - See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/armenia_s_first_president_ter_petrosyan_warns_agai n_anti_russian_rhetoric/#sthash.vZE1XEeQ.dpuf
From: Baghdasarian
YEREVAN, September 10. /ARKA/. The first president of Armenia and
leader of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon
Ter-Petrosyan called upon his supporters to avoid anti-Russian rhetoric
in connection with the situation around official Yerevan's decision
to join the Russia-initiated Customs Union.
"Today I see there is a danger for us. Recently Serzh Sargsyan was
being presented as a broadminded pro-Western politician, whereas we
were portrayed as obscure pro-Russian forces. Now, after Sargsyan
turned around 180 degrees, the same forces are trying to label us as
Russophobes", Ter-Petrosyan said at an ANC board meeting.
The first president reminded he warned against both an-Russian and
anti-Western moods many times.
No ANC leader should make any outrageous statement against Russia,
its people or Putin, Ter-Petrosyan said.
"We should realize we are not a marginal and irresponsible element,
but an alternate serious institutional political force having a full
understanding of state responsibility", the first president said.
According to Ter-Petrosyan, after having received an offer from Europe
to sign an association agreement, Sargsyan should have met with Putin
and told him "Europe offers this, what could you offer in response".
"It is a natural partnership diplomatic obligation, and if the
outcome anyway should be the membership in the customs union, it
would be a more worthy and more advantageous partnership and Armenia
would gain much more than in the current humiliating situation",
Ter-Petrosyan said.
Yet, according to Ter-Petrosyan, Brussels would not burn bridges with
Armenia, will not give up "flirting" with it and will keep hoping
for a success in future.
The ex-president also said he cannot make assessments
of the customs union before professional economists
study its limitations and advantages.-0- - See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/armenia_s_first_president_ter_petrosyan_warns_agai n_anti_russian_rhetoric/#sthash.vZE1XEeQ.dpuf
From: Baghdasarian