OPPOSITION IN BED WITH GOVERNING LEADERSHIP, SAYS PEOPLE’S PARTY LEADER KARAPETYAN

Tert
Nov 20 2009
Armenia

Armenia’s opposition is getting into bed with the country’s governing
leadership, People’s Party Leader Tigran Karapetyan stated at a press
conference today.

"Levon Ter-Petrossian’s last speech, where it was stated that their
[Armenian National Congress’] opinion on Armenia-Turkey border and
Nagorno-Karabakh corresponds to that of the governing leadership,
except for the point of creating a commission on Armenian Genocide,
makes us think that there is a rapprochement," Karapetyan said.

Besides, he said that the Armenian National Congress (ANC) didn’t
hinder the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement process; "it didn’t make
statements and didn’t organize protest demos."

According to Karapetyan’s forecasts, in 2012, "we will see that the
Pan-Armenian National Movement will have a seat in parliament, not
within the frames of ANC, but as a party."

Karapetyan cannot state clearly whether granting the motion by
political prisoner, Haykakan Zhamanak ("Armenian Times") chief editor
Nikol Pashinyan is a result of an arrangement. "But the leadership,
for the first time, made a concession. They could also have done it
formerly," Karapetyan said.

Karapetyan connects sustaining Pashinyan’s claim with the first
president’s speech.