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THERE ISN’T HARSH OPPOSITION IN ARMENIA
[07:44 pm] 02 March, 2007

`Justice’ bloc sees its mission fulfilled’, Grigor Haroutyunyan,
Secretary of `Justice’ faction, announced today during the NA
briefings.

Does it imply that the constitutional order is restored in Armenia as
the bloc was aimed at recovering the constitutional order?

`No, it doesn’t’, said Mr. Haroutyunyan and added that his friends had
suggested continuing the activity of the bloc but their offer was
rejected.

Hrayr Karapetyan noted that the failure of the oppositional forces was
determined by their ambitions and lack of determination. If the
opposition really wanted to hold power they were to sacrifice certain
things; they shouldn’t have rested for months, and then appear with
the intention of initiating coup d’etat. `That’s why Armenia lacks
harsh opposition nowadays’, he says.

The United Labor Party is neither discouraged nor delighted by the
fact that the oppositional forces have been unable to unite. `It is
not our fault that the attempts of the opposition have failed’.