RPA: `Authorities are of determination not to allow provocations’

`Armenian authorities are full of determination not to allow
provocations taking place’, RPA representative stated

February 15, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Secretary of parliamentary faction of the
Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Samvel Nikoyan stated today that
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian `has all the chances to win in the very
first round of the presidential elections of February 19′.

Mediamax reports that Samvel Nikoyan stated that the distinguishing
peculiarity of the present election campaign became the manifestation
of intolerance both among the presidential candidates and among their
supporters.

The MP stated that the oppositional candidates `struggle for the second
place’ and some of them pin certain hopes on the post-election
developments. Samvel Nikoyan stated that `Armenian authorities are full
of determination not to allow provocations taking place and are ready
to suppress such hopeless plans’.