"GEGHAMIAN WILL LEAD PEOPLE TO JUSTICE"

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21 January, 2008

"Only Artashes Geghamian will lead people to justice," said the
chairman of Geghamian’s pre-election headquarters Alexan Karapetian. He
urged the presidential candidates to debate over political programmes
instead of spreading gossips.

On the first day of the pre-election campaign leader of the
National Unity Party (AMK) and presidential candidate Artashes
Geghamian presented his pre-election programme entitled "Programme
of Creation." The programme consists of 164 pages. The AMK leader
states his programme greatly differs from others due to its uniting
force and reference to interests of all social strata.

"In the preface of his "History of Philosophy" Hegel wrote that
statehood triumphs in countries where the interests of an individual,
entrepreneur and monopolist coincide with the interests of the
nation, and become a common national interest. This is the idea
and philosophical basis of our programme. We tried to explain and
convey that national unity is inevitable in case the interests of
an ordinary Armenian citizen coincide with the interests of small
and medium-sized businessmen, even with that of a monopolist or
a government official. National unity is essential to progressive
development of the state," Artashes Geghamian said while presenting
his programme.

The AMK leader called on the candidates to conduct political debates
over macroeconomics and monetary-credit policy. I am unmatched in
this respect."

Geghamian rules out his support for Levon Ter-Petrossian. He declined
to say whether he would support any other oppositional candidate. "It
is a matter of time," he said.