HOVANISYAN ADVISES NERSISYANTS TO ADVISE OTHERS

Lragir, Armenia
Dec 13 2006

Vahram Nersisyants, economic adviser to Robert Kocharyan, had advised
the ARF to come out from the coalition and attend to problems which
are closer to socialism. Today Vahan Hovanisyan, member of the ARF
Bureau, told our reporter, "He had better advise the institution
which pays him a salary."

Vahan Hovanisyan also stated that as a classic socialist party, the
ARF often votes for liberal laws in a coalition with liberal parties,
because "in a poor country socialism often leads to bolshevism,
which is unacceptable." At the same time, Vahan Hovanisyan assures
that the rightist partners of the leftist ARF Dashnaktsutyun often
vote for social laws, "In Armenia the classic right-left division
does not work."

Vahan Hovanisyan confessed that "very often you shut an eye on
something, you notice something but prefer not to discuss it in
the media," but this is for the sake of security of the country and
internal stability as its continuation, "which cannot be endangered."