ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ACCUSES RIVAL OF "DESTABILIZING SITUATION"

Mediamax
Jan 30 2008
Armenia

Yerevan, 30 January: "[Ex-President and presidential candidate]
Levon Ter-Petrosyan does everything todestabilize the situation in
the country," an Armenian presidential candidate and leader of the
National UnityParty (NUP), Artashes Geghamyan, said in Yerevan today.

Speaking today at a meting with the youth, Artashes Geghamyan stated
that the team of the ex-president has received"huge funding from
outside and tries to justify in every possible way the upcoming
failure of its leader during the[19 February] presidential election".

According to him, "the participation of Levon Ter-Petrosyan in
the present election campaign is the project of[incumbent Armenian
President] Robert Kocharyan and is directed to the establishment of
an atmosphere of fear in thecountry".

The leader of the NUP said that the return of the ex-president
and his company to power will have catastrophicconsequences for the
country. "Those people are avengers but not creators, and they intend
to continue theinterrupted robbery of the country," Geghamyan said.