Didn’t agree with the game Putin-Medvedev

06:41 pm | March 25, 2010 | Politics
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Armenia’s chief Marxist David Hakobyan qualified Robert Kocharyan’s
evaluation of Armenia’s economic policies as "perfect deception and
theft."

The Marxist especially didn’t like Kocharyan’s statement according to
which he left a brilliant economy to Serzh Sargsyan. "I consider
throwing the blame on the current government for the criminal economic
apparatus that he created as a profligate statement. Change of power
is a historical need today."

David Hakobyan believes Robert Kocharyan is planning a political
revanche. "The interviews by Oskanyan and Kocharyan show that they are
planning a political revanche for Armenia. If they didn’t come to
terms during a behind-the-scenes discussion with Serzh Sargsyan on the
issue of the prime minister, in other words, the Putin-Medvedev game,
going against each other is a predetermined confrontation."

David Hakobyan says the conflict between Robert Kocharyan and Serzh
Sargsyan will lead to the emergence of a third power. "The time of
false democrats and the so-called reformists is over." Who can be that
third power? In response, Hakobyan said: "The third power will be the
president that can effectively structure the state apparatus in the
21st century. I am talking about a new person."

Unlike David Hakobyan, ARF Supreme Body representative Armen Rustamyan
welcomes Robert Kocharyan’s interview. "Once I even said that Levon
Ter-Petrosyan shouldn’t have stayed silent for 10 years. Did you want
Kocharyan to stay silent for 10 years as well? We need the experience
of those people. They shouldn’t leave politics after their term
because they can turn into a topic of debate. It is a fact that the
situation is very serious today. Armenia currently faces a crisis in
economic management."

According to Rustamyan, Kocharyan presented the facts that are
impossible to refute. "We truly had an economic growth. Now, the
government is trying to link everything to the global economic crisis.
The people who talk about that must remember that they were not
talking about the crisis at all and said that the crisis would
circumvent Armenia."

After the ARF welcomed the interviews with Kocharyan and Oskanyan,
rumors are flying around that Kocharyan, Oskanyan, BHK (Prosperous
Armenia) and the ARF have joined forces to take the power from the HHK
(Republican Party of Armenia). What do you have to say about that? In
response, Rustamyan said: "I officially announce that there is no such
alliance. We are a socialist party." So, are the Dashnaks friends with
Kocharyan and Oskanyan? In response, Rustamyan said that socialism
should not be mixed with friendship. "We don’t link our activities
with Kocharyan’s activity." Rustamyan believes Robert Kocharyan
doesn’t want to be prime minister. He simply says that the economic
policies of the current government are not the continuation of his
policies.