SADOYAN IS A "GENUINE OPPOSITIONIST"

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[03:10 pm] 03 October, 2008

Leader of the National Democratic Alliance (AZhD) Arshak Sadoyan
hoped that Serzh Sarkissian would declare an amnesty for the people
arrested after the Presidential election of February 19 who are
generally deemed as political prisoners.

"Unfortunately, the President made no reference to the detainees in
his yesterday’s presidential address," Arshak Sadoyan told a press
conference today.

And yet, the AZhD Leader hopes that all the arrestees will be released
before the formation of the Public Council. "Well, I only mean those
detained on political motivations."

Arshak Sadoyan feels sorry that he is a mere observer in the NA ad
hoc Commission looking into the occurrences of March 1 and has no
right to pose questions.

Mr. Sadoyan doesn’t take the formation of a commission of
Armenian-Turkish historians seriously and says it will hardly be
effective.

"Flowing generation change is impossible in the political domain as
long as the issue of political problems and the problem of corruption
are left unaddressed," says the AZhD Leader.

Arshak Sadoyan said he is "a genuine oppositionist." While defining the
term "genuine oppositionists" Arshak Sadoyan named Vazgen Manukian,
HHSh members and added, "Everyone who opposes the acting regime is
an oppositionist."