LEVON TER-PETROSYAN MAY SUPPORT ARTASHES GEGHAMYAN
Lragir
Sept 4 2007
Armenia
Koriun Arakelyan, member of the National Solidarity Party, confirmed
on September 4 at the Hayatsk press club the rumored meeting of Levon
Ter-Petrosyan and Artashes Geghamyan. Koriun Arakelyan said Artashes
Geghamyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan discussed the current state of the
country and the ways out. Koriun Arakelyan prevented the reporters’
question whether Artashes Geghamyan will support Levon Ter-Petrosyan
if he is nominated, and set forward the contrary thesis. "Levon
Ter-Petrosyan is a serious, prominent individual and a political
figure, and why shouldn’t we think if Artashes Geghamyan runs in the
presidential election, Levon Ter-Petrosyan will support him? Why isn’t
this question asked? For it is possible that if Artashes Geghamyan
runs in the presidential election, as a serious and experienced
politician Levon Ter-Petrosyan will support Artashes Geghamyan,"
Koriun Arakelyan says.
Does Levon Ter-Petrosyan have an alternative to supporting Artashes
Geghamyan in participating in the presidential election? Koriun
Arakelyan says Levon Ter-Petrosyan can answer this question because
he does not know, he only knows there is no alternative to Artashes
Geghamyan. Meanwhile, there is no certainty regarding Geghamyan’s
nomination because it will be during the conference of the National
Solidarity which is going to be a jubilee because the party is ten
years old. Now Geghamyan is preparing his address to the conference
which covers the state of the country, while the members of the party,
according to Arakelyan, are trying to persuade their leader to run in
the election. "It is lavishness to leave out a person like Geghamyan
from public administration," he thinks.
In the meantime, Geghamyan is reluctant to oust Robert Kocharyan and
Serge Sargsyan from the process. At least during the meeting of the
opposition leaders he offered to invite pro-government forces including
Kocharyan and Sargsyan. In commenting on his leader’s decision,
Koriun Arakelyan said we must care for a change in the country before
personalities, which is impossible without unification of the nation.