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ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS LEADER NOT COOPERATING WITH PROSPEROUS ARMENIA TO CHANGE POWER - STYOPA SAFARYAN
19:09 * 04.03.14
In an interview with Tert.am, Political Secretary of the Heritage party
Styopa Safaryan spoke of Armenian ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan's
expectations about Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik
Tsarukyan's political ambitions.
Safaryan does not believe that "a political force not seeking power
could suddenly come to power."
With respect to Ter-Petrosyan's comparing Gagik Tsarukyan with Georgian
ex-premier Bidzina Ivanishvili, Safaryan said:
"I think it is not a problem of being superior or inferior. Each of
them has strong points the other does not. But Ivanishvili clearly
stated the government - Mikheil Saakashvili -was his opponent."
It is for the first time over the past five years that, at the Armenian
National Congress (ANC) party's rally on March 1, Ter-Petrosyan did
not call then President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan "responsible for
the massacre" on March 1, 2008.
"I think Levon Ter-Petrosyan is a reasonable and intelligent person.
He cannot have forgotten Robert Kocharyan. Another question is why
he does not consider Robert Kocharyan responsible for March 1. The
answer is cooperation between the PAP and ANC.
"I have for all my life hated the motto 'the end justifies the means'.
The problem is not at all cooperation with Prosperous Armenia.
Cooperating with the PAP is aimed at solving the country's numerous
problems, and we are doing it in the Parliament and in the Yerevan
Municipality. To be frank, I cannot understand when something is
placed in a false light. I am for different problems to be settled
in cooperation with all the political forces. But I cannot believe
Ter-Petrosyan's words - that the aim of the cooperation is a change
of power."
With respect to the statement by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA) that Ter-Petrosyan could now seek the post of Gagik Tsarukyan's
Spokesman, Safaryan said:
"If Gagik Tsarukyan and the PAP state they are not an opposition
force, I cannot take the ANC's statement they are an opposition
force seriously."
Armenian News - Tert.am
19:09 * 04.03.14
In an interview with Tert.am, Political Secretary of the Heritage party
Styopa Safaryan spoke of Armenian ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan's
expectations about Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairman Gagik
Tsarukyan's political ambitions.
Safaryan does not believe that "a political force not seeking power
could suddenly come to power."
With respect to Ter-Petrosyan's comparing Gagik Tsarukyan with Georgian
ex-premier Bidzina Ivanishvili, Safaryan said:
"I think it is not a problem of being superior or inferior. Each of
them has strong points the other does not. But Ivanishvili clearly
stated the government - Mikheil Saakashvili -was his opponent."
It is for the first time over the past five years that, at the Armenian
National Congress (ANC) party's rally on March 1, Ter-Petrosyan did
not call then President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan "responsible for
the massacre" on March 1, 2008.
"I think Levon Ter-Petrosyan is a reasonable and intelligent person.
He cannot have forgotten Robert Kocharyan. Another question is why
he does not consider Robert Kocharyan responsible for March 1. The
answer is cooperation between the PAP and ANC.
"I have for all my life hated the motto 'the end justifies the means'.
The problem is not at all cooperation with Prosperous Armenia.
Cooperating with the PAP is aimed at solving the country's numerous
problems, and we are doing it in the Parliament and in the Yerevan
Municipality. To be frank, I cannot understand when something is
placed in a false light. I am for different problems to be settled
in cooperation with all the political forces. But I cannot believe
Ter-Petrosyan's words - that the aim of the cooperation is a change
of power."
With respect to the statement by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA) that Ter-Petrosyan could now seek the post of Gagik Tsarukyan's
Spokesman, Safaryan said:
"If Gagik Tsarukyan and the PAP state they are not an opposition
force, I cannot take the ANC's statement they are an opposition
force seriously."
Armenian News - Tert.am