ARMENIA WILL LOSE IF IT MAKES A BAD CHOICE

Lragir.am
20 April 06

“I alone cannot guarantee a fair election, and I alone cannot promise
that the election will be free and fair,” stated Foreign Minister
Vardan Oskanyan April 20 in a news conference.

He finds only one clear thing about the elections in 2007 and 2008;
if the elections are bad, apart from moral damage Armenia will suffer
material losses. “The Millennium Challenge program is an evidence
to this. The program stipulates compliance with certain standards,
and a breach of standards would mean losing the 235 million dollars
to be provided by the MCC program,” says Vardan Oskanyan, repeating
that will mean that if Armenia makes a bad choice, it will lose the
“moral as well as material support of its friends.”