CURRENT REGIME CAN BE COMPARED WITH A TWO-HEADED DRAGON: ZURABYAN

Tert.am
17:41 ~U 02.04.10

There is a rather big difference between the current situation and
the shift in authority in 1998, Armenian National Congress (HAK)
coordinator Levon Zurabyan said at a press conference today.

According to Zurabyan, in 1998, there didn’t exist such a powerful
and unified opposition as there is today. In his opinion, despite
being part and parcel of a political system whereby they can hold
governing authorities responsible, today’s opposition doesn’t reduce
the challenges the RA President Serzh Sargsyan is facing both inside
the regime led by him and abroad.

Referring to the talks on disagreements between the Republic of
Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharian and current president Serzh
Sargsyan, Zurabyan said that the current regime can be compared with
a two-headed dragon with Kocharian as one head and Sargsyan, the other.

In his words, regardless of how much the two heads of this dragon
may verbally assault each other, the dragon will altogether remain in
its same place as such. HAK’s main task is to get rid of that dragon.

Zurabyan also mentioned that all the talk about Sargsyan and Kocharian
having disagreements over the Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR) issue are not
true. In Zurabyan’s opinion, Kocharian has never criticized Sargsyan’s
NKR policy.

Head of Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau’s Hay Dat and
Political Affairs Office Kiro Manoyan, in turn, referred to the theme
of shift in authority, saying that he does not see any prerequisite
for such a shift.

Firstly, according to Manoyan, there are no such figures in Sargsyan’s
entourage who would impel him to resignation. Secondly, Sargsyan
himself will not resign given the circumstances.