ARAM KARAPETIAN PROMISES A SUPER BEST-SELLER BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
By Gohar Gevorgian, Translated by L.H

AZG Armenian Daily #160
05/09/2007

The Chairman of the Nor Zhamanakner Party Aram Karapetian (NZP)
announced at a press conference on September 3 that he would put his
candidacy in the coming presidential elections. "I welcome all the
negotiations of the opposition and will be happy, if the opposition
unites, but I am sure that it will fail to do it and there is no need
to feed the society on false promises", mentioned Aram Karapetian.

According to the predictions of the Head of NZP, 8-10 candidates will
participate in the presidential elections, and the elections will
have a second round; Aram Karapetian and Serj Sargsian will appear
in the second round, if the latter announces his candidacy.

To the question of the reporter of "Azg" daily how Aram Karapetian
could be so confident that he would overcome the first round, he
answered: "I see that we are using maximum financial resources, we
are able to gather the biggest human resources, and we present real
programs with geopolitical analyses without any populism. All these
let me express my own opinion".

What about the finances, Aram Karapetian announced that they had
no problem connected with the finances, and they were even ready
to participate in the elections the next day. According to him, he
is sponsored by his brother who lives in Russia, and relatives from
Armenia and abroad.

What about the finances of the authorities, the Chairman of the NZP
is sure that they will play a big role in the coming elections, too,
though these elections will be more civilized.

"The candidate of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)
will be the second candidate of the authorities", announced Aram
Karapetian. "What about Levon Ter-Petrosian, he will not overcome
the first round", the Head of NZP thinks.

It seems that NZP Chairman promises a super bestseller before the
coming elections.

He promises to publish sensational facts about the domestic and
foreign policies of the country since 1992, and facts connected with
the incidents of October 27. "I am ready to defend each fact in the
court", added Aram Karapetian.

"Armenia’s involvement in the Russian-Belarus Union will soon become
a subject of public discussions; I am not against it, but not to the
detriment of our independence", underlined Aram Karapetian. "However,
are we ready to participate in that process?" added the leader of
Nor Zhamanakner Party.