LOOKING FOR TRIVIAL THINGS INSTEAD OF DOING AN IMPORTANT JOB
Lilit Poghosyan

"Hayots Ashkharh"
9 Nov 07

RPA Deputy-Chair, member of NA "Republican" faction Razmik Zohrabyan
shares his viewpoints about pre-election rumors, the activeness of
the lighthouse of Armenian Pan National Movement Levon Ter-Petrosyan
and particularly his meeting with the young revolutionaries.

"Frankly speaking I consider the hullabaloo around Lavon
Ter-Petrosyan’s meeting with the youth a bit artificial. Can’t the
First President of Armenia gather 600-700 young people and talk with
them. I don’t see anything extraordinary in it.

The only strange thing here is that Levon Ter-Petrosyan called the
activists of Armenian Pan National Movement gangsters. He introduced
it as a joke, but the people took it seriously. In fact the first
president confessed that he couldn’t appoint one of the activists of
Armenian Pan National Movement as the country’s Prime Minister that
is why he had to appoint the President of Karabakh in this post.

Meanwhile he stated that both Serge Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan did
a good job. This means either he couldn’t orient himself at that time
or he is wrong in his evaluations at present.

Levon Ter-Petrosyan had slip-ups in Karabakh issue, in economic
policy, because in few years they scattered the economy that have been
created in 70 years and by the way they sold everything as a metal,
and by the way at pennies, or exported from Armenia. Many countries
in the world have passed through this way, they have transferred
from social system to market relations, but they did it gradually,
not by demolishing economy.

How can a country in war scatter its economy in such a way? And arguing
the economy demolished by himself, saying that Armenia has no future,
that the country cannot progress, he proposed to make unilateral
concessions, cede Karabakh to Azerbaijan. Thanks to God some people,
some political figures managed to recover the economy and meanwhile
to keep Karabakh.

During those 10 years Azerbaijani leaders have adjusted themselves to
the idea that Armenia won’t agree to unilateral concessions. And today
a candidate has appeared, who was once ready for concessions. Naturally
Azerbaijani political figures are hopeful, " Maybe Levon will win,
and we will over again be able to dictate our rules?" I consider it
very dangerous.

"Continuing to "proofread" the history Levon Ter-Petrosyan made a
sensational revelation, announcing that in 1990-92 Serge Sargsyan was
"exiled" from Karabakh and that he brought him to Armenia from Moscow."

"The first President didn’t say the whole truth. Firstly Serge
Sargsyan has never been "exiled from Karabakh". At that time Serge
Sargsyan was really in Moscow, on a very important mission of supplying
armaments. And Levon Ter-Petrosyan is well aware of this fact."

"Some people speculate on Armen Ashotyan’s announcement, saying that
the forthcoming RPA Congress will be historical, because for the first
time on the level of a Congress the Republican Party will nominate
a candidate from among their ranks. In 1991 was Ashot Navasardyan
nominated by the party, or by civil initiative?"

"I was the one who submitted 15 thousand signatures to the Central
Election Commission, as Ahot Navasardyan’s entrusted person. Both
the Republican Party and the Constitutional Right Union nominated
Ashot Navasardyan as a presidential candidate and Hrant Khachatryan
as Vice-President, it is another thing that it was done not by the
Congress but by the Council. At that time according to the existing
legislation 15 thousand signatures were needed.

My young colleague probably meant this, by saying that Ashot
Navasardyan has been nominated by a civil initiative. In essence he is
right, for the first time the Party will nominate a candidacy through
a Congress. Simply the pro-opposition press is trying to create a
hullabaloo from nothing, by speculating on such issues. They don’t
have anything interesting to say."

"Those who are fond of colored revolutions over again are getting
prepared for extraordinary elections. Are the Georgian "lessons"
not enough for the pro-opposition powers to forget about it once and
for all?"

"Really the events in Georgia displayed that all the so-called
"colored revolutions" are temporary phenomena. That is why in some
sense, the citizens are satisfied for some period of time, but some
time later they again have complaints…

Thus some people try to settle their problems, but ordinary people
never benefit from it.