SERGE SARGSIAN: RPA IS READY TO COOPERATE WITH ANY FORCE AND CAPABLE INDIVIDUAL

Noyan Tapan
May 16 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. "We are content with the parliamentary
elections and we have a guideline," RA Prime Minister, Board Chairman
of the Republican Party of Armenia, told journalists on May 16 at
RA National Assembly explaining that the party’s guideline is that
"the people and European partners evaluate the next elections as
fully corresponding to European standards."

He reminded that he had stated in advance that if RPA receives 25%
and more votes in the parliamentary elections, it will consider
that the party "worked well." "We have been always modest in our
strivings," S. Sargsian assured at the same time mentioning that in
RPA that registered more results than anothers "no one, naturally,
has dizziness, no one considers that there were no shortcomings,"
of which no country’s electoral system is free.

The Prime Minister did not consider it expedient to give estimations
to the fact that as a result of parliamentary elections the National
Unity, People’s Party of Armenia and other parties will not be
represented at the parliament of fourth convocation. In his words,
"the parliament is not stretch: it has 131 seats, for which a struggle
went on and such results were registered."

S. Sargsian said that he has repeatedly stated that RPA and personally
he consider themselves "pro-Armenian forces and not pro-Russian
or pro-NATO, pro-Eastern ones." "We have always tried to implement
programs aimed at solution of security problems of our people, at
raising its living standards and in this case we were interested in
anothers’ interests as much as those forces were interested in our
interests," S. Sargsian said.

He also said that in the issue of formation of new government RPA
"is ready to cooperate with any force, any capable individual."