ARMENIA: SARGSYAN MAY FACE UNITED OPPOSITION ON KARABAKH PEACE TALKS

EurasiaNet
July 22 2009
NY

Armenian opposition parties say that they may form a coalition to
oppose Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s position on talks with
Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

The moderate Heritage Party has announced that it proposed to
ex-President Levon Ter Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress and the
ultra-nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun
(ARF) that they present a united front against the Sargsyan
administration.

"We are waiting to hear [from the ANC and Dashnaktsutiun]," Heritage
Party leader Armen Martirosian told a July 21 news conference,
A1plus reported.

ARF and the ANC have a long history of confrontation, but their
positions on current political issues such as the Nagorno-Karabakh
talks and Yerevan’s recent city council elections increasingly
overlap. ARF, a former member of the government coalition, has so
far avoided joining the ANC in its call for Sargsyan to step down,
but has pushed for the resignation of Armenia’s foreign minister,
Edward Nalbandian.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress