EDUARD SHARMAZANOV: MANY FIGURES RESIGNED, BUT DID NOT LEAVE RPA

Noyan Tapan

Se p 17, 2008

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 17, NOYAN TAPAN. The decision to nominate the
candidature of former head of RA President’s Administration Hovik
Abrahamian to the post of RA National Assembly Speaker was confirmed at
the RPA Board September 16 sitting. RPA Spokesperson Eduard Sharmazanov
said at the September 17 press conference. Answering the observation of
a journalist that H. Abrahamian is a figure unacceptable for society,
E. Sharmazanov said that even such mighty figures as Charles de Gaulle,
Francois Mitterand or Robespierre were accepted "equivocally" by their
countries’ societies for some time. The RPA Spokesperson confirmed
party Chairman Serzh Sargsyan’s statement that RPA members did not
have a goal to remove NA Speaker Tigran Torosian from his post:
their goal was to see T. Torosian in another sphere.

Touching upon the thoughts and evaluations of T. Torosian voiced at
the press conference held the day before, E. Sharmazanov stated that
before that RPA members had never heard about his disagreements with
them from him. As regards T. Torosian’s advice to RPA members to take
thirty silver coins and to continue their way, E. Sharmazanov said that
when a person passes a long way with his colleagues for many years he
should not name them "people sold for thirty silver coins." "It is
a pity that my elder colleague did such a thing. A political figure
should have some correctness.., Many RPA figures resigned formerly
but did not leave the party," E. Sharmazanov said. And as regards
T. Torosian’s statement that black PR is carried out to him, the
RPA Spokesperson said: "If a person says that he undergoes black PR,
he should mention concrete names."