Armenian Dashnaks deny plans to nominate next Karabakh leader

Hayots Ashkharh, Yerevan
1 Mar 07

Text of unattributed report by Armenian newspaper Hayots Ashkharh on 1
March headline "Fiction and lie"

"The Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun has no plans
to nominate [Dashnaktsutyun member] Artur Aghabekyan for the Nagornyy
Karabakh presidential election [June 2007]. There are no such
plans. It is fiction and a lie," the deputy parliament speaker and
member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun,
Vahan Hovhannisyan, told reporters yesterday, commenting on media
reports.

He confirmed that Aghabekyan is on the proportional list of the
Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun. Hovhannisyan will
not take part [in the Armenian parliamentary election on 12 May] under
the first-past-the-post system.