ARTHUR BAGHDSARYAN REFUSED TO COMMENT

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14 February, 2008

"Bisharyan has already explained", said Arthur Baghdasaryan after
the meeting with doctors, avoiding any comment on the announcement,
allegedly the latter had a mutual agreement with Serge Sargsyan,
that he would win in the first round and pass the second round,
where Serge Sargsyan would win, and by this step the version that
the elections were rigged would be rejected.

It is worthwhile, reminding that the Head of Arthur Baghdasaryan’s
headquarters Heghine Bisharyan said in the morning that "maybe Levon
Ter-Petrosyan has an agreement with Serge Sargsyan to ruin and to
dissolve the whole opposition field", commenting on the news published
in the media.

To the question why the "Oritnats Yerkir" party (the "Rule of Law"
party) continued negotiations with Ter-Petrosyan’s team, if they
considered so, the Deputy Head of the party noted that if the First
President’s team suspected them in collaborating with the authorities,
then why they continued the negotiations with the "Orinats Yerkir"
party. However, Heghine Bisharyan did not exclude the possibility
that Ter-Petrosyan and Arthur Baghdasaryan might unite in the second
round. According to her, no one raised the issue who of the candidates
should unite the other candidate.

Heghine Bisharyan also told the journalists, that the "Orinats Yerkir"
party had adopted an announcement, according to which the party would
reflect on the possible cohesion with another opposition power after
the first round of the presidential elections.

"We consider the second round inevitable", motivated Heghine
Bisharyan. According to her, Arthur Baghdasaryan "is the aspirant
for the first place, not for the second".