POWER IS DEARER THAN KARABAKH FOR SOME FORCES IN ARMENIA, ARDARUTIUN REPRESENTATIVE ASSURES

YEREVAN MARCH 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian President and Foreign
Minister should participate in the parliamentary hearings on Nagorno
Karabakh scheduled for late March and comment on the policy carried on
in this issue. Stepan Zakarian, a member of RA NA Ardarutiun (Justice)
faction, made such a statement on March 22 in NA. Mentioning that the
members of Ardarutiun faction are among the initiators of the hearings
the MP declared that they don’t share Robert Kocharian’s and Vardan
Oskanian’s optimism and don’t agree that Armenia carries on a right
policy in this issue. Zakarian assured that Armenia is inferior to
Azerbaijan in the sphere of propaganda around Karabakh issue. Learning
about the hearings some political figures and forces declared that
this is the order of the authorities, the MP mentioned. “Will it
be bad if the authorities take right steps in Karabakh issue with
our assistance?” he emphasized and concluded that “there are some
political forces and figures both within the power of Armenia an out
of it for whom the power is dearer than Karabakh.”