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14:26 20/05/06

GOD GRANT THAT ORINATS YERKIR GIVES QUALITY TO OUR OPPOSITION

`We will not have either politically hot spring or hot autumn this
year,’ Garnik Isagulyan, president’s adviser on national security
issues, told a news conference today. In his words, there are neither
social nor economic preconditions for serious events. There is no
public demand, either. Besides, holidays start after which the
political forces will become more active in fall getting ready for the
parliamentary elections. `But I don’t think that this activism will
enable some political forces to raise their rating more than they have
now,’ he said. Isagulyan predicts peaceful elections in spring.

In the words of the president’s adviser, Orinats Yerkir’s departure
from the ruling coalition is a normal fact. Orinats Yerkir has become
aware that their disagreements on some issues have stepped out of
contract agreement, so the party decided to enlarge its scope of
activity which may not cause any serious or extraordinary
consequences.

The adviser refuted that OY was punished for not obeying the
president’s apparatus. There has been no such instruction from the
president’s house, he said. `If any of OY members say that pressures
were imposed upon them, I will apologize,’ the adviser noted.

Answering to the question whether OY affiliation to the opposition
will give a new qualitative effect to this political force, Isagulyan
answered in short, `God grant.’ /Panorama.am/