ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SEEKS NO MEMBERSHIP IN POLITICAL PARTIES

Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 30, 2006

YEREVAN, August 30. /ARKA – Novosti-Armenia/. Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan seeks no membership in political parties, presidential
spokesman Victor Soghomonyan said Wednesday at a press conference
in Yerevan.

In his words, the president has never wanted to join any party.

Soghomonyan also said he would remain non-partisan as well. He said
presidential staff will do the same.