HEGHINE BISHARIAN PROMISES TO PUNISH ALL THOSE WHO SPREAD GOSSIP AND FALSE RUMORS ABOUT HER

Noyan Tapan
March 27, 2008

YEREVAN, MARCH 27, NOYAN TAPAN. The cause of the Orinats Yerkir
(Country of Law) party’s joining the ruling coalition was its
willingness to carry out reforms, to fulfil its preelection promises
and to establish stability in the country. Heghine Bisharian, the
party Vice-Chairwoman, stated at the March 27 press conference.

She said that formerly OYP had worked in the coalition and worked
well, therefore "people voted for them" in the parliamentary
elections. Having disagreements with other coalition members then,
OYP left the coalition, but this time, as H. Bisharian affirmed,
will stay until the end. The party Vice-Chairwoman gave assurance
that serious reforms will be implemented in the country in a very
short period, and OYP will also take part in that process. She said
that the party has conducted surveys in 250 thousand families and 65%
respondents approved OYP’s membership to the ruling coalition.

In response to journalists’ questions, H. Bisharian stated that
practically OYP will be included in the coalition government only
in April, and before this term the party is not responsible for the
authorities’ actions, in particular, those done against the peaceful
demonstrants. In her words, the February 29 signing of an agreement
between Prime Minister and newly elected President Serge Sargsian
and party Chairman Artur Baghdasarian is not connected at all with
the next day’s, March 1 tragic events. According to H. Bisharian,
those who invited the people to a rally and provoked them to disorders
are to blame.

According to H. Bisharian, during the elections she was an apologist of
uniting with Levon Ter-Petrosian’s team, but the unification did not
take place due to the dual conduct of the latter’s supporters. In her
words, she took part in all negotiations with the first President,
they proceeded in an atmosphere of mutual understanding, but the
next day Nikol Pashinian, the editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak daily,
distorted the facts in his newspaper or spread obviously false rumors.

In H. Bisharian’s words, after OYP’s being involved in the coalition
press publishes false information about the OYP leadership, including
her. In particular, according to the previous day’s publication in the
Zhamanak Yerevan newspaper, the authorities have given an expensive car
to her as a present. According to the OYP Vice-Chairwoman, this is a
slander and she has already applied to the Prosecutor’s Office in that
connection. H. Bisharain stated that henceforth all those spreading
gossip or false rumors about her will be punished. This also regards
Tigran Karapetian, a former presidential candidate, the Chairman of
the ALM TV Company, who has written a poem mocking at A. Baghdasarian.