Kocharyan Accuses Opposition of “Treachery” as He Leaves for France

ARMENIAN LEADER ACCUSES OPPOSITION OF “TREACHERY” AS HE LEAVES FOR FRANCE

Interfax news agency
25 Apr 04

YEREVAN

Before leaving for Paris on Sunday (25 April), Armenian President
Robert Kocharyan accused the opposition, which intends to hold a mass
rally in Yerevan on 27 April demanding that the government be
replaced, of “treachery”.

Kocharyan said he intends to meet his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham
Aliyev in Warsaw on 27 April to discuss a settlement of the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict.

“At the second stage of such negotiations, the organization of such
events in the country by the opposition is treachery, to put it
mildly,” Kocharyan said. If the opposition does not come to reason, it
could be called “a political crime”, he said.