PEOPLE’S PARTY OF ARMENIA SHARES EX-PRESIDENT’S APPROACHES

ARMENPRESS
Jan 18, 2008

YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS: Stepan Demirchian, chairman of an
opposition People’s Party of Armenia, said today despite a set of
differences between his party’s approaches to resolving some key
issues and those spelled out in Ter-Petrosian’s election manifesto,
his party will support ex-president’s presidential bid.

Demirchian told a news conference today that apart from these
difference there is also a lot that connects his party and
Ter-Petrosian’s supporters, for example, Ter-Petrosian’s vision of
how to improve relations with neighbors, how to enhance higher birth
rates and resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Demirchian said many members of his party, including his deputy Grigor
Harutunian are involved in campaign offices of the former president
and will be campaigning for him once the official start is given.

Stepan Demirchian said he is sure that the main battle for presidency
will be between Ter-Petrosian and prime minister Serzh Sarkisian.