ARMENIAN MP: YEREVAN IS INTERESTED IN POLITICAL STABILITY IN GEORGIA

Regnum, Russia
Oct 1 2007

The current situation in Georgia is not a kind of pre-election
phenomenon, but mostly is a post-revolutionary echo, Secretary of the
Republican Party of Armenia faction Samvel Nikoyan saying under this
very reason one must not expect such events in Armenia.

According to him, any change of power via revolution has certain
post-revolutionary rules and this concerns not Georgia only. "If
you analyze post-revolutionary developments all over the world,
you will see that such processes are seen quite often," Nikoyan
added. He mentioned that in countries where instead of clear-cut norms
"individual, missionary way of ruling functions" even in its positive
manifestation, such developments are impossible. "Naturally, I would
prefer that political stability is achieved in the neighboring country,
which is in interests of Armenia too, but such events are inevitable
anyway," Nikoyan concluded.

Earlier, Georgian ex-defense minister Irakli Okruashvili spoke out
with a statement accusing President Saakashvili in masterminding
a number of assassinations and promising to make public details of
death of former prime minister Zurab Zhvania. Several days after that,
Okruashvili was arrested under the charge of corruption and sentenced
to two months in custody.