NO REVOLUTION WITHOUT OUTSIDE FORCE

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03-03-2005

Independent deputy Manuk Gasparyan appealed to the opposition

Today’s guest of the Pakagits club Manuk Gasparyan commented on the
inexpediency of launching revolution at the moment. According his
predictions made many months ago, Robert Kocharyan will resign from
office in 2005 due to the unsettlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
Today he says that «in 1997 Robert Kocharryan arrives in Armenia to
assume the post of the Prime Minister and several months later he
succeeded in pressing Levon Ter-Petrosyan to resign. It proves that he
is not a naive official and will not abdicate from his power without
pressure».

The independent deputy also advised the opposition forces of all kinds
not to launch any revolutionary movements without assistance from
outside.

Manuk Gasparyan compared the National Assembly with a ship full with
rats and reminded of an old story telling how to drive rats away, `Ten
rats should be shut in a dark place without any food. Days later they
start eating each other. In the end there is one strongest rat left. It
is let out to the deck to eat up the rest.’

When commenting on contender for the next presidential election the
deputy stated NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan as the most inappropriate
nominee and also excluded Justice Minister David Harutyunyan from the
list of candidates.

Manuk Gasparyan also foretold the collapse of the ruling coalition after
the elections to the local self-government bodies to be held in October
and added even the President will not be able to prevent it.