ADVISER TO NKR PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON HIS AND PRESIDENT’S ACTIONS
Lragir.am
04-07-2007 14:50:49
On July 4 Arman Melikyan, adviser to NKR president Arkady Ghukasyan,
was hosted at the Friday Club and commented on his demarche of July 3
at the Caucasus Analytical Center and on Arkady Ghukasyan’s address to
the Slavic University. For the readers to understand the link between
these two events we remind that Arman Melikyan’s demarche and Arkady
Ghukasyan’s speech took place almost simultaneously. However, this is
not the end. Melikyan’s demarche was related to the round-table meeting
at the Caucasus Center on the NKR presidential election to which the
representatives of the five NKR presidential candidates, and experts
and politicians from Armenia and Karabakh were invited. Arman Melikyan
was also there who stated that the discussion held by the Caucasus
Center is unacceptable for him since the Caucasus Center represents a
third country, and in fact the Karabakh election is discussed from the
aspect of interests of this third country. He meant Russia which funds
the Caucasus Center.
What has Arkady Ghukasyan to do with this? At the Slavic University,
which also has a Russian root, Arkady Ghukasyan spoke about the NKR
presidential election and his attitude towards the candidates, and
endorsed Bako Sahakyan. It happened simultaneously with the demarche of
the adviser, and in fact it created an imbroglio for the adviser. Or
the adviser created an imbroglio for the president.
On July 4 Arman Melikyan, adviser to NKR president, commented on this
embarrassment at the Friday Club. `I would like to advise you not to
take a tank for a bicycle. After all, the Slavic University is an
educational institution which does not pursue political purposes.
Meanwhile, the Caucasus Analytical Center specializes in political
studies, at least two of its experts support one of the NKR
presidential candidates. In other words, there is a direct and open
interference,’ Arman Melikyan says.
We reminded Arman Melikyan that no expert of the Caucasus participated
in the discussion organized by the Caucasus Center. In other words, in
this case it is pointless to speak about interference because the
experts who, Arman Melikyan says, support Masis Mayilyan did not take
part in the discussion, and the representatives of all the five
candidates had been invited but only Gegham Baghdasaryan from Masis
Mayilyan’s team turned up. With regard to our observation about the
absence of the `biased’ experts of the Caucasus, Arman Melikyan even
identified them with the Caucasus to justify his point of view.
`They represent the Center, and in this context I do not want to
separate the center from its experts. If they had stated that they do
it as separate persons, or the center stated that they are citizens of
Armenia, and as citizens of Armenia are certainly interested in the
events underway in Karabakh, it would be different. But no statements
were made. I think we should develop this culture,’ Arman Melikyan says
who does not accuse the organizers. He says it might have been an
effective experience which was not given the right shape.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
