CLU CHAIRMAN HRANT KHACHATRIAN TO MAKE STATEMENT ON VICTORY OR POLITICAL STATEMENT ON JANUARY 21

Noyan Tapan
Jan 17 2007

YEREVAN, JANUARY 17, NOYAN TAPAN. On January 21, Hrant Khachatrian,
the Chairman of the Constitutional Law Union (CLU) party, will make
a statement on victory or a political statement on January 21. He
said this at the January 17 press conference. Before that, by 15:00
of January 17, the CLU Chairman expects to hear a statement from the
authorities about the issue of which state structure is responsible for
the actions carried out by the Police in the party’s office building
on January 15. Hrant Khachatrian considers the actions of the Police
carried out in "peaceful conditions" as absolutely illegal and having
no legal grounds.

It should be mentioned that according to the statement made by CLU
Chairman Hrant Khachatrian the day before, on January 15, with
the motivation of obligatory execution of the court decison, in
consequence of operative actoions, the locks on the party’s office
doors were broken and the entrance door of the CLU office, the room
of editor-in-chief of party’s official newspaper Iravunk and the room
of the publicity department were handed over to the control of Hayk
Babukhanian, the Director of the Zaruhi Publishing House LTD.

According to the CLU Chairman, party’s former Vice-Chairman Hayk
Babukhanian pursues purely a material purpose by declaring that he is
the party Chairman and he will return the party’s office: the party’s
office located in Y. Koghbatsi, 50a in the territory of Yerevan’s
small center, costs 500 thousand dollars, the party has a certificate
of ownership of almost the half of the territory, 240.8 sq.m. It has
already become known that the territory has appeared in the development
zone and the Local Developer organization has won the tender announced
for the territory. The party Chairman will conduct negotiations for
the purpose of receiving an adequate compensation for the territory.

According to the CLU Chairman, by actions conducted the day before
have a political implication: CLU stated that in the forthcoming
presidential elections it will support Vazgen Manukian, the Chairman
of the National Democratic Union, and H. Babukhanian will support
any candidate except Levon Ter-Petrosian, up to RA Prime Minister
Serge Sargsian.