AZG Armenian Daily #064, 12/04/2005

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TIGRAN TOROSIAN: THERE IS NO GROUND FOR ‘VELVET’ REVOLUTION IN ARMENUIA

Tigran Torosian, deputy chairman of the National Assembly, was yesterday’s
speaker at the National Press Club. He refuted in his speech all statements
of local and international analysts concerning an approaching “velvet”
revolution in Armenia. He assured that there is no ground for revolution in
Armenia and reminded foreign analysts that “velvet” revolutions, as a rule,
are always connected with elections, therefore there is no use waiting for
an upheaval as the next elections in Armenia will be held only in 2007 and
2008. Instead, he suggested not to confuse Armenia with neighboring
Azerbaijan which will go through election this fall.

“A temporary commission for discussing the Karabakh issue is envisaged to be
set within the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in April of
2005. It will include parliamentarians from the countries of the OSCE Minsk
group”, Tigran Torosian said and reminded that the January resolution of
PACE has a clause according to which the PACE will return to discussions of
the Karabakh issue in 2006.

The deputy chairman was displeased that some political parties within the
country play on separate articles of the PACE January resolution. He thinks
that the resolution “opens broad perspectives for an efficient settlement of
the conflict”.

By Nana Petrosian

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress