TER-PETROSYAN’S RETURN A PUBLIC DEMAND?

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[04:10 pm] 17 July, 2007

"We cannot solve new problems with old stereotypes, we need new
ideas, new formats", considers Hovhannes Hovhannessian, leader of
"Armenian Liberal Progressive Party". He thinks that the public
is waiting for a real alternative, and he sees that alternative in
Ter-Petrosyan. According to Mr Hovhannessian, Ter-Petrosyan has more
chances, than other presidency candidates, since all "fundamental
successes" in the modern history of Armenia has been achieved
when Ter-Petrosyan was the RA president. Among other successes,
Mr Hovhannessian mentioned the achievement of independence,
Nagorno-Karabakh victory, Bagratyan’s economic and land reforms,
which the present authorities could not complete. "The present
authorities could not solve any fundamental problems", pointed
Hovhannes Hovhannessian.

"The Karabakh problem has not been settled, the country is in
complementary regime. We are left out of all regional projects,
relations with Turkey is unsettled, bribe and corruption are scattered
all over the country", mentioned Mr Hovhannessian. And the first
president of the Republic has no right to keep silence and not to
return to the political field when such a chaos preserves in the
state. Mr Hovhannessian is confirmed that there is an urgent need in
Ter-Petrosyan’s return, since the nation prefers the individual who
is more mysterious and the 10-year mysterious silence gives him more
opportunities to be elected.

Hovhannes Hovhannessian noted that the political field in Armenia
was not accomplished and the reason was "before each election the
authorities puzzle the nation until the next elections". A normal
political field cannot be attained by a divided, small and ambitious
field. In Hovhannessian’s opinion, one should not think of preserving
a chair, but of establishing a proper political field for the future
generation.

He also informed that negotiations aimed at uniting political parties
were on the process. But as Mr Hovhannessian noted everything was
still complicated.

Disputes within Mr Hovhannessian’s party are going on.

Eduard Antinyan, secretary of the board of "Armenian Liberal
Progressive Party", accuses Hovhannes Hovhannessian in taking away
the documents and demands new plans for the party. Mr Hovhannessian
refused to touch upon the party’s problems today promising to solve
the problem in the coming session in September.