Lragir, Armenia
Dec 5 2007

BAZEYAN ALSO PROMISES REVELATIONS

In speaking about controversies between him and the other co-founder
of the party Vagharshak Harutiunyan in a briefing on December 5
Albert Bazeyan, the leader of the National Rebirth Party which
decided to join the Liberal Democratic Party, touched upon the
previous elections, namely the history of the Republic Party which
Bazeyan and Harutiunyan had left to set up the National Rebirth.

Bazeyan also touched upon his career, saying that he has never been
self-interested and will never use a position to make money. `I will
never go anywhere and take up a post to make money. It is not my way
of life and my style of work. Accusations are many, for years on,
when we left the Republic Party, they said it was put up by the
Russians, the National Rebirth was a Russian project, because
Vagharshak Harutiunyan was here, or it was Serge Sargsyan’s
instruction. If yes, why couldn’t the party afford to rent an office?
Why are we in this state?’ Albert Bazeyan asks, enumerating the
suppositions on the creation of the National Rebirth Party.

Bazeyan says even his friends often accused him of working honestly.
Bazeyan says he will never renege on his principles. By the way,
Albert Bazeyan denied buying a Mercedes car. `It was an old car, ten
years old, it was worn and offered to the bank as security.
Therefore, I would like to ask you not to place all the Mercedes
stories on the same dish. Go and see the houses of all the ex-mayors,
and compare their lifestyle to mine. Or see where Vagharshak
Harutiunyan lives alone and where my family of six live. I repeat
that the slander about self-interest, money do not refer to me. My
friends, my family say I was compliant but I have never reneged on my
principles,’ Albert Bazeyan says with regard to newspaper stories
that he clang to his post and when he was dismissed, he rushed to
Aram Zaven Sargsyan’s party. `They were clinging to me. They were
unemployed for eight months and they came to the city hall twice a
month and proposed setting up a party. I explained to people that it
is not moral for me to work here, and set up an opposition party
together with you outside. I first need to quit that job to set up.
If they had been able they would have created a party. We quit, we
set up the Republic Party. We had different ideas, political
approaches, we left without claims and aspirations, we did not
release a statement. Meanwhile, you say Mercedes cars, Serge’s money,
a Russian project. I don’t know what else. I have warned them if Aram
Sargsyan does not refute it, I will hold a news conference and
clarify some issues,’ Albert Bazeyan says.