AZG Armenian Daily #172, 21/09/2007

Local Politics

HAGOB AVEDIKIAN: "THE INITIATIVE WAS MINE, THE IMPLEMENTATION BELONGED
TO PRIME MINISTER"

"I had no expectations, but I cherished the hope that RA Prime
Minister will give and interview to our newspaper. I repeat it now,
too, I would like him to give an exclusive interview to our newspaper
or answer the questions I put forward. By the way, these questions
were not occasional ones, but based on our working experience, but our
officials, including both the president and the prime minister prefer
to work with the TV channels, imparting a secondary role to the
printed press," Hagob Avedikian, Ediot-in-chief of "Azg" Daily
newspaper, said this at the press conference at "Friday" press club.

He added that from the journalistically viewpoint, he wasn’t satisfied
with the interview with RA Pm Serge Sargsian, it should have been more
active, though it wasn’t a bad precedent. He also said that in the
edited version of the interview the not very ackward parts of it
remained, conditioning this by the unexpected wind during the open air
meeting. In the end, giving an evaluation to the interview, Mr.
Avedikian emphasized that the initiative was his, while the
implementation belonged to the prime minister.

By Nana Petrosian, Translated by K.A