ARMEN ROUSTAMIAN: DASHNAKTSUTYUN CANNOT BE IN ROLE OF OBSERVER AND STAND ASIDE

ARKA
Feb 28, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The strained situation after the
February 19 presidential elections is becoming a deadlock so every
political force concerned about it must take steps in order to find a
way out, member of the ARF Armenia Supreme Body, the chairman of the
RA National Assembly Standing Committee of Foreign Relations Armen
Roustamian told NT correspondent.

In his words, the Dashnaktsutyun cannot be in the role of observer
of the process and stand aside. He said that so far there has been no
response to the ARF’s offer to act as a mediator between the opposing
sides, but there are "some signals".

According to A. Roustamian, "one of the positive signals" is the RA
prime minister, newly elected president Serge Sargsian’s call for
cooperation, which was made to the former presidential candidates
and political forces that support them. A. Roustamian said that it
only remains that "the other side will see the way of cooperation".

As for the statement of the NA speaker Tigran Torosian that the
ARF’s proposal to end cooperation in the political coalition was made
with "a bit strange" formulation, A. Roustamian said that under the
agreement signed on June 6, 2007, cooperation may be ended because of
an insurmountable disagreement in principle, based on a statement of
one of the sides or by consent among the sides. "We have proposed the
most logical way of solving the problems related to our cooperation,"
he said.