"DASHNAKTSUTIUN IS DECISIVE IN TAKING PART IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WITH COMMON CANDIDATE," CHAIRMAN OF ARF DASHNAKTSUTIUN DECLARES

Noyan Tapan
Oct 26, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The ARF Dashnaktsutiun is decisive in
taking part in the presidential elections with a common candidate. This
statement was made by Hrayr Karapetian , the Chairman of the ARF
Dashnaktsutiun faction of the RA National Assembly, during the
parliamentary briefing held on October 26. In his words, both of the
candidates nominated by the party: Vahan Hovhannesian, the Vice-Speaker
of the National Assembly and a member of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun Bureau,
and Armen Rustamian, the Chairman of the RA Standing Committee on
Foreign Relations and the ARF Armenia Supreme Body representative,
are "good" and it will be very difficult to make a choice between them.

It should be mentioned that it will be decided which of these two
candidates will be officially nominated in the ARF Supreme Council
to be held at the end of November.