OPPOSITION LEADER MAKES GRAVE FORECASTS

Panorama.am
15:36 19/10/06

"Highly explosive situation is created in the region and we will not go
a lot forward with our present foreign policy. Concrete solutions are
required," Hohvhannes Hovhannisyan, chairman of Armenian Progressive,
Liberal Party, said. "No one needs Armenia with its present status. The
only thing left to be done is to become a region of Russia," he told
a press conference today.

He said the situation is explosive also due to Russian-Georgian
conflict because of which we will spoil relations both with Russians
and Georgians. He said Armenia’s policy is not flexible. Hovhannisyan’s
grave forecasts said Georgia will eventually close its railway and
automobile routs for Armenia.

Hovhannisyan said free and fair elections are a solution to the
situation. "Authorities elected in faked elections will always remain
the slave of Russian leadership," he said.

Speaking about Nagorno Karabakh conflict regulation, he said Armenia
will have to hand over 7 regions against the status of Nagorno
Karabakh. Asked by a reporter how the public will react to such
concession in case when it called All Armenian National Movement (HHSh)
leadership betrayers when they wanted to hand over 3 regions in 1997,
Hovhannisyan said, "It is the problem of the society."