ONLY ONE QUESTION TO LEVON TER-PETROSYAN

Lragir, Armenia
Aug 2 2007

On August 2 at the Friday Club the reporters asked the leader of the
National Self-Determination Union Paruir Hairikyan who initiated the
meetings of the leaders of the opposition about his attitude if Levon
Ter-Petrosyan is viewed as the common candidate, considering that the
leader of the All Armenian Movement is also running in the election.

"If the issue of the individual is discussed, I will ask him only
one question. As a commander-in-chief, President Levon Ter-Petrosyan,
you had to go all the way to set a model for your soldiers. Meanwhile,
you said in your statement of 1998 that you "resign under the pressure
of certain forces." It is not the way a commander should act. Are there
guarantees that you will not resign under the pressure of certain or
uncertain forces, and will not abandon the positions?"

Paruir Hairikyan asks to the first president. He also says, however,
he is not prejudiced when the national issues are concerned.

"But if we come to an agreement and we decide that he must be our
representative, he will work with this team, and this man says we
will agree on principle issues, I am not prejudiced. If the person
who was neglected by people at the height of the Artsakh movement,
who was neglected by people, became one of the political figures in
Armenia and a National Hero, a person who was opposed to the Artsakh
movement, why Levon Ter-Petrosyan cannot?" Paruir Hairikyan says.

He says, however, that if the common candidate is concerned, there
must be agreement on the program, on the team, because it is pointless
to consider the victory of an individual.