SOCIAL DISCONTENT OF SOCIETY CANNOT BECOME BASIS OF OPPOSITION’S
FURTHER STRATEGY, ARMEN AGHAYAN SAYS

YEREVAN, JANUARY 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Coordinator of In Defence of
Liberated Territories public initiative Zhirayr Sefilian had exact
programs in connection with the preelection period, which became the
cause of his arrest. Initiative member Armen Aghayan stated this at
the January 24 roundtable.

In A.Aghayan’s words, some representatives of ruling coalition long
before Z.Sefilian’s arrest knew about arms kept at Vahan Aroyan’s
place in the village of Lusarat. In A.Aghayan’s words, this makes
clear that the last circumstance was deliberately connected with
Z.Sefilian’s case. "After January 10, when they saw that they cannot
fluently turn over the case in the direction beneficial for them,
in some circles they started to whisper that indeed, the arms found
in Lusarat have no connection with Sefilian," A.Aghayan said.

In connection with opposition’s further struggle A.Aghayan reminded of
the statement voiced lately at the meeting of Forum of Intelligentsia,
that there is social discontent in the society and the opposition
should build its stratagy in consideration of this circumstance. But
as A.Aghayan affirmed, social discontent is a phenomenon controllable
by material resources: any financially powerful party can reduce it
to silence. So, in his words, it cannot be a basis for opposition’s
further strategy.