UNION OF ARMENIAN VOLUNTEERS WILL CONTINUE ITS ACTIVITY DESPITE
EVERYTHING: ACTING COORDINATOR OF UNION

Yerevan, December 16. ArmInfo. "The Union of Armenian Volunteers will
continue its activity despite the arrest of its coordinator and
resistance of the authorities," said Armen Aghayan, Acting Coordinator
of the Union of Armenian Volunteers public and patriotic movement,
Political Secretary of the organization "For protection of liberated
territories," at the Club "Azdak," Saturday.

He believes that the arrest of the Karabakh war hero Zhirayr Sefilyan
is connected with the desire of a group of persons, who have seized
the power, in Armenia to settle definite problems. "The regime is
afraid of any process of consolidation of the Armenian public," he
said.

A. Aghayan said the Union has definite political tasks to fulfill. The
key one is an overall control over the upcoming parliamentary and
presidential elections. However, he refused to specify any political
force which the Union will develop cooperation with.

As regards his previous statements on the efficiency of the attempts
by the Armenian opposition to prevent mass election rigging,
A. Aghayan said he had no intention to state anything insulting about
the opposition, he just presented the real state of affairs.