MERGER OF OPPOSITION IS "RATHER ILLUSORY"

Aysor
Oct 20 2009
Armenia

"What is Armenia’s opposition, its ways of development and cooperation
– these items are relevant not only today, but they will be relevant
for a long time," believes Larisa Alaverdyan, secretary of the
Heritage Party.

"We are happy, as we are living witnesses and beholders of dynamic
happenings not only inside the country, but also abroad," she said.

Dividing Armenian opposition into two parties Mrs. Alaverdyan said
that Armenian National Congress formed around political and social
issues, that is, it was item of power replacement.

According to Larisa Alaverdyan, of new-format opposition formed
on different platform, where the forces agree that despite the
political or other developments initiated by authorities, the process
of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations may influence not only
our historic desire or issues of multimillion Diaspora’s Armenians, but
it may also influence situation and developments inside the country.

These two parts of opposition, Mrs. Alaverdyan says, are represented
by only several figures or political forces, and in this sense,
the future merger of these parts formed around different issues is
"rather illusory".