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WAITING, DEBATING: MEETINGS, STRATEGY PRECEDE AWAITED ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PREMIER
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POLITICS | 11.04.14 | 16:26
By GAYANE MKRTCHYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
The delay in the appointment of the 13th leader of Armenia's chief
executive body will keep mass media in tension for three more
days, during which the contradictory variety of speculations and
interpretations will continue. The postponement of the new prime
minister's appointment reveals still ongoing inner developments; the
consultations with the oppositional party leaders the same day as the
ruling Republican board meeting were not productive for either side,
hence the search for "the golden middle" is still in process.
Opinions have been voiced that the opposition should, if offered,
refuse any appointment to the new cabinet.
Representatives of two of the four oppositional factions- the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF) and Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) -
accepted President Serzh Sargsyan's invitation and met on Thursday,
while the Armenian National Congress and Heritage turned down
a meeting.
ARF faction leader Armen Rustamyan told yerkir.am after the meeting
that nothing was said about the new prime minister, rather that the
ARF seven-point suggestions were introduced to the president related
to the situation and their ideas of change, to which the president
said that the seven points were nothing new.
"The president will study them in a sense that he would determine how
acceptable they are to him to integrate them in the government policy
yet to be adopted. Our position will be determined by his response,"
he said.
Rustamyan discarded the speculations about a possible ARF-RPA-PAP
coalition saying that the format of cooperation is conditioned by
the fact as to what degree the fundamental issues they have suggested
would be accepted.
On Kentron TV, PAP faction member Vartan Oskanian cited PAP leader
Gagik Tsarukyan as telling the president during the meeting that
there is no coalition issue on PAP's agenda.
"PAP's leader also stressed the need for economic changes to the
president. Mr. Tsarukyan said that it was time that the government's
six-year work was evaluated to understand the steps and actions to
be taken to overcome the current situation," said Oskanian.
The meeting with the president was followed by another meeting,
this time among three oppositional party leaders - ANC's Levon
Ter-Petrosyan, PAP's Gagik Tsarukyan and Heritage's Raffi Hovannisian,
during which they discussed their joint agenda and action plan under
the new political circumstances.
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/53538/armenian_prime_minister_gagik_tsarukyan_serzh_sarg syan_vartan_oskanian
POLITICS | 11.04.14 | 16:26
By GAYANE MKRTCHYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
The delay in the appointment of the 13th leader of Armenia's chief
executive body will keep mass media in tension for three more
days, during which the contradictory variety of speculations and
interpretations will continue. The postponement of the new prime
minister's appointment reveals still ongoing inner developments; the
consultations with the oppositional party leaders the same day as the
ruling Republican board meeting were not productive for either side,
hence the search for "the golden middle" is still in process.
Opinions have been voiced that the opposition should, if offered,
refuse any appointment to the new cabinet.
Representatives of two of the four oppositional factions- the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF) and Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) -
accepted President Serzh Sargsyan's invitation and met on Thursday,
while the Armenian National Congress and Heritage turned down
a meeting.
ARF faction leader Armen Rustamyan told yerkir.am after the meeting
that nothing was said about the new prime minister, rather that the
ARF seven-point suggestions were introduced to the president related
to the situation and their ideas of change, to which the president
said that the seven points were nothing new.
"The president will study them in a sense that he would determine how
acceptable they are to him to integrate them in the government policy
yet to be adopted. Our position will be determined by his response,"
he said.
Rustamyan discarded the speculations about a possible ARF-RPA-PAP
coalition saying that the format of cooperation is conditioned by
the fact as to what degree the fundamental issues they have suggested
would be accepted.
On Kentron TV, PAP faction member Vartan Oskanian cited PAP leader
Gagik Tsarukyan as telling the president during the meeting that
there is no coalition issue on PAP's agenda.
"PAP's leader also stressed the need for economic changes to the
president. Mr. Tsarukyan said that it was time that the government's
six-year work was evaluated to understand the steps and actions to
be taken to overcome the current situation," said Oskanian.
The meeting with the president was followed by another meeting,
this time among three oppositional party leaders - ANC's Levon
Ter-Petrosyan, PAP's Gagik Tsarukyan and Heritage's Raffi Hovannisian,
during which they discussed their joint agenda and action plan under
the new political circumstances.