Kocharian Has The Right To Express His Opinion: Former NKR Foreign M

KOCHARIAN HAS THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS HIS OPINION: FORMER NKR FOREIGN MINISTER

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14:12 ~U 24.03.10

Republican Party of Armenia MP Gagik Minasyan didn’t read second
president of Armenia, Robert Kocharian’s statement yesterday in an
interview with local news agency Mediamax, and thus, he was unable
to comment.

"Unfortunately, I haven’t become familiar with it yet," said Minasyan
at a press conference today, noting that in order to make a comment,
he’ll have to read the statement first.

Yesterday, Kocharian had criticized the state of the country’s economy,
saying that the current government was ill-equipped to withstand the
global financial crisis.

Former foreign minister of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR)
Arman Melikyan, in turn, noted that Armenia’s economy is really quite
poor, irrespective of who’s speaking about it.

"This shouldn’t turned into a cat-and-mouse game in domestic policy,"
he said, adding that it’s not that the situation has gotten worse in
the past two years, but that it’s been going on for a number of years.

"The deterioration is connected with the existence of a flawed
governing system, which currently exists in Armenia," he said.

According to Melikyan, Kocharian has acted in an official capacity
for 10 years and he has the right to express his opinion, as well as
the right to bear responsibility for what has happened.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS