"SOCRATES IS MY FRIEND BUT TRUTH IS DEARER STILL…" REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ARMENIA TO SUPPORT NOT ITS MEMBER HAKOB HAKOBIAN BUT GENERAL SEDRAK SAROYAN

Noyan Tapan
Apr 11 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 11, NOYAN TAPAN. "Hakob Hakobian is my friend but the
party will support the candidature of Sedrak Saroyan," Galust Sahakian,
head of the RA National Assembly’s Republican Party of Armenia
(RPA) faction, stated at the April 11 press conference, responding
to reporters’ question why the RPA did not support its member Hakob
Hakobian. "It does not mean that Hakob Hakobian is extremely bad,"
G. Sahakian noted, adding that along with his unpredictability,
H. Hakobian is "a person with serious thinking."

To recap, the Republican Party of Armenia nominated the candidature
of General Sedrak Saroyan, former commander of the 4th army corps,
at electoral district No 19 of Echmiadzin, while the candidature
of RPA member, deputy Hakob Hakobian who was proposed on the civil
initiative, was not finally registered by the RPA.

As regards S. Saroyan, in the words of G. Sahakian, each person should
be assessed taking into account the way he/she passed: "Saroyan could
have been dead now, and the RPA appreciates his contribution during
the Karabakh war."