ARFD CALLS ARMENIAN PRESIDENT FOR STOPPING "FOOTBALL DIPLOMACY"

NOYAN TAPAN
MAY 28, 2009
YEREVAN

ARFD calls RA President Serzh Sargsyan for stopping "football
diplomacy" carried on towards Turkey. ARFD Armenian Supreme Body
representative Armen Rustamian stated at the May 27 concluding
preelection rally. According to ARFD members, the process launched
after Turkish President Abdullah Gul’s visit to Yerevan "did not lead
Armenians to anything good." "Today the danger is indeed serious,
but Dashnaktsutiun cannot overcome it on its own," A. Rustamian
said. According to him, ARFD needs a new vote of confidence, which
it expects to receive in Yerevan Council of Elders elections.

ARFD Bureau member Aghvan Vardanian, in his turn, stated that though
the other day the RA Prime Minister called Armenia’s citizens for
spending their summer holidays in Armenia, large advertisement boards
offering people to have a rest in Turkey in summer have appeared in
Yerevan. "Has current Mayor seen these boards?," A. Vardanian asked
adding that for sure there are no Armenian advertisement boards
in Istanbul.

Touching upon the home political situation, the ARFD Bureau member
predicted that if radical opposition forces assume Yerevan government
they will again clash with the central power, which will destabilize
the situation in the country. While ARFD, in A. Vardanian’s conviction,
should receive its votes to have its unique place in case of new
rearrangement of political forces. "No new political system can be
formed without ARFD," he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress