"I FEEL THEY WILL NOT ENDURE 10 DAYS"
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[06:45 pm] 01 March, 2008
"I have not had time to analyze the situation; I do not even have
enough information, since I am deprived of the opportunity to
communicate with my friends. I feel that this is Robert Kocharyan’s
and Serge Sargsyan’s end. I feel they will not endure the situation
more than 10 days", declared the RA First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan
during the press conference at his place today.
Ter-Petrosyan noted that they would take all legal measures within
the frames of the Constitution, they would appeal to the Municipality
to organize rally, gatherings and assemblies, but if they deny they
would have to conduct spontaneous events.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan did not exclude that the CEC would have to revise
its final decision on the results of the election. Levon Ter-Petrosyan
hopes that the Constitutional Court may meet the requirements their
appeal and recognize the elections invalid.
Answering to the question of "A1+" who was responsible for 1 March
incidents, Ter-Petrosyan stated that both functioning and the "elected"
presidents were responsible for them. "If I were the elected president
I would not have any lever, but Serge Sargsyan is the Prime Minister
and all powers obey him". According to him, Serge Sargsyan cannot be
admitted by the world as a president, but if he stays in his post by
chance, he will never be considered a legitimate president.
"I do not imagine, that after this disgraceful election Serge Sargsyan
will be considered a legitimate president and will be able to head
the nation, which does not tolerate him", declared The RA First
President. He would be astonished if the outer world admitted the
RA authorities for committing 1 March violence against the peaceful
protestants after international community’s urges and appeals forwarded
to the authorities by a number of international structures.
"I will not understand if the international community tolerates the
occurrences at night", said Levon Ter-Petrosyan. He considers that
the behavior of the authorities is a challenge not only to our people,
but also to the international community
Levon Ter-Petrosyan also considers that the authorities stand benefit
from the fact that the European officials are not in Armenia, since
the majority of the observers and the international journalists are
focused on the presidential election in Russia and Armenia is out of
everybody’s attention. The First President also mentioned that the
diplomatic corpus is aware of the recent incidents, violations in
Armenia. Levon Ter-Petrosyan also stated that during the meeting
with the international observers Robert Kocharyan ensured them
that Levon Ter-Petrosyan also participated in the negotiations,
which was not true. "Two days ago Putin and Kocharyan talked
on the phone and Kocharyan ensured Putin that no force would be
used against the protestants. Putin stated that the use of force
was forbidden. Besides, Kocharyan has ensured Putin allegedly I am
involved in the negotiations", told Ter-Petrosyan. He informed the
journalists that no one had negotiated with him, but even if they
made an attempt to negotiate he would not respond.
Today Ter-Petrosyan expressed wish that the functioning authorities
were clean to be able to leave their posts. According to him "they
have such a criminal base, including 27 October incident that they
are unable to leave quietly".