RETURN OF ARMENIAN FIRST PRESIDENT TO ACTIVE POLITICS SERIOUSLY CHANGES THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY, ONE OF HIS TEAMMATES IS SURE

ArmInfo Agency, Armenia
Oct 6 2007

ArmInfo. "The return of the first Armenian president to active politics
seriously changed the situation in the country: everyone understood
that the expectations of those, wishing it, begin to came true. At
the same time the opponents started to worry", the representative of
"the Alternative" opposition socio-political movement, ex-mayor of
Yerevan Vahagn Khachatryan said during his meeting with journalists
at the "Azdak" club, Saturday.

He criticized the work of mass media controlled by the authority,
which, he thinks, were ordered not to make Levon Ter-Pterosyan’s
well-known speech of September 21 public, but only to give personal
comments. "Looking at the screen, I was trying to understand, what
in the first president’s speech dissatisfied the TV channels. But
I failed to, as the speech itself, or any serious fragments from it
weren’t aired", V. Khacahatrian said. At the same time, the politician
expressed confidence that after Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s appearance in
active politics, the culture of political debate, itself returns
to the Armenian reality. "We aren’t going to follow the rules of
game dictated by the authorities, we won’t fight with them on the
level of gossip and black PR. On the contrary, we are going to
present our program and to offer a way of bringing the country out
of crisis. None of us will descend to the level of the opponents’
political hysterics", the oppositionist said. Vahagn Khachatryan said,
that according to data available, the Public television of Armenia
is finishing shooting a film fully directed to the anti-agitation of
the time of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s presidency.

"The only thing we demand, is to be given an opportunity to answer
on the same TV channel", the representative of "the Alternative"
movement summed up.