INTERNAL POLITICAL SITUATION IN ARMENIA IS SO THAT POLITICAL FORCES OF
COUNTRY CANNOT GO ON SUMMER HOLIDAY EASILY:ARSHAK SADOYAN

YEREVAN, JULY 16. ARMINFO. The internal political situation in Armenia
today is so that the political forces of the country do not have the
right to go on leave easily. Leader of the party Bloc of national
democrats, deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia from the
opposition bloc Justice Arshak Sadoyan stated during the press
conference today.

According to him, gradually Armenia slip into the class of third-sort
Asian countries, whereas its neighbor Georgia moves by the way of
democracy with confidence, and another neighbor Azerbaijan possesses
large oil resources, which allows the international community to shut
their eyes to the violations of democracy in that country. In these
conditions instead of taking some steps the present leadership of
Armenia is only concerned over tamping of own pockets, and the recent
visit of Prime Minister of Armenia Andranik Margarian to Moscow again
confirmed it, the deputy thinks. In this situation the Bloc of
national democrats has come out with a Program which will be widely
discussed by the opposition and finally corrected after the congress
of the party on July 31.

The Program consists of two points, the first point to conduct
constitutional reforms till Jan-Feb 2005, which aim to reduce the
authorities of the president and creation of a program State. After
conducting a constitutional nation-wide referendum it is necessary to
hold immediate extraordinary presidential and parliamentary elections
in the country, and the incumbent President Robert Kocharian will be
the guarantor for holding the elections, but he will not have the
right to nominate his candidacy in these elections. Only this will
allow the society to shut eyes to the outrage taking place in the
country by the illegal power, the parliament member stressed. Sadoyan
refused to answer the question about the possibility of return of the
opposition to the parliament, stating that there is much time till
Sept and he is not authorized to decide and answer similar questions
alone. One thing is clear – the opposition must change its tactics,
Arshak Sadoyan thinks.