Republican Party Respects ARF Decision To Contest Presidency

REPUBLICAN PARTY RESPECTS ARF DECISION TO CONTEST PRESIDENCY

ARMENPRESS
Sept 27 2007

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS: Samvel Nikoyan, a senior member
of the ruling Republican Party, said his party respects the decision
of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) to filed its own
presidential candidate.

"Every political party has the right to contest the presidential
elections. The ARF has voiced its decision and it did not come as a
surprise to us,’ he said to a news conference today.

Nevertheless, Nikoyan said he could not comprehend why the ARF insists
on being an alternative to both the government and the opposition.

"It is my opinion, if you are in the government (ARF has three
ministers in the Cabinet), therefore you are in the government and
you can not be an alternative to it," Nikoyan said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS