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HAYRIKYAN NEGOTIATES WITH THE PRIME MINISTER

04:10 pm 24 March, 2006

Today the leader of the Union for National Self-Determination Paruyr
Hayrikyan started the process of negotiation with the leader of the RA
republican party, Prime-Minister Andranik Margaryan, a person whom
Paruyr Hayrikyan himself called and `agent’ and accused of various
actions.

Is it possible after all this to find edges of negotiations and will
Andranik Margaryan agree to negotiate? Being in the stage of
negotiations, Paruyr Hayrikyan today allayed his estimations
concerning Andranik Margaryan and said, `Andranik Margaryan has been
one of the important persons of the National United Party. After some
time some people left the party, among those people was Andranik
Margaryan who was under pressure’.

Paruyr Hayrikyan wants the 40th anniversary of the National United
Party to be celebrated on the government level. `Is there a single
party in Armenia which puts a goal before himself and his people and
reaches it? The only one was National United Party the aim of which
was independence and he reached it. And now whose anniversary should
be celebrated if no of that of National United Party’,-says Paruyr
Hayrikyan, who founded the Union for National Self-Determination on
the bases of the National United Party.

He also noted that there is a considerable difference between the
independence of the countries of the former Soviet Union: `Uzbeks
became independent because Armenia was in a struggle. We didn’t win
our independence the way they did’. According to Paruyr Hayrikyan,
this year is also the 15th anniversary of the self-determination of
the Armenian nation – the 1991 September referendum of
independence. And we cannot celebrate it without remembering the
anniversary of the NUP.

Paruyr Hayrikyan expects Andranik Margaryan to start the anniversary
events of the NUP anniversary on April 24 which is the day of
foundation of the party. He expects that programs about the history of
the party, conferences and congresses will take place within the
framework of the events. The most important thing for UNSD is to move
the ashes of the founder of the NUP Haikaz Khachatryan to the pantheon
and to declare him as a national hero. `He was a person who for a long
period of time was the inspiration for the independence’, Paruyr
Hayrikyan says.

By the way, it is not clear yet if Andranik Margaryan is going to
negotiate with Paruyr Hayrikyan.