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ARF Says Empiric Pro-Russian Approaches Surrender To Pragmatic Ones

ARF SAYS EMPIRIC PRO-RUSSIAN APPROACHES SURRENDER TO PRAGMATIC ONES

Armenpress
Mar 21 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 21, ARMENPRESS: A deputy chairman of Armenian parliament
told journalists today in Yerevan last week he saw indications in
Moscow that Russia may revise its decision to double the price of
natural gas it sells to Armenia.

Vahan Hovhanessian, a deputy parliament speaker from the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation (ARF), who headed an Armenian delegation
to Moscow for a recurrent meeting of the Russian-Armenian
intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation, told a
news conference in Yerevan those indications made him ‘cautiously
optimistic’ that some mechanisms would be found to compensate the
gas price hike.

He said Armenians did not try to conceal their discontent in Moscow
over the anticipated price hike, largely expected to become effective
from April 1, when Russian Gazprom is expected to start selling gas
to Armenia at $110 per one thousand cubic meters instead of current
$56. He said Russian government officials promised to take note of
Armenian discontent. Hovhanessian argued that ’empiric pro-Russian
approaches in the Armenian political environment are yielding to
pragmatic approaches, as a result the voice of anti-Russian forces
is becoming stronger and they are becoming more influential.”

“We explained to our Russian partners that the authorities and
the opposition in Armenia are not divided into pro-Russian and
anti-Russian segments, but the prevalence of unreasonable elements
in Moscow’s policy may lead to stronger anti-Russian sentiments which
may eventually jeopardize Armenia’s national security,” he speculated.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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