ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES READY TO MAKE CONCESSIONS TO FOREIGN AUTHORITIES, BUT NOT TO OPPOSITION: ANAHIT BAKHSHYAN

Tert.am
07.04.10

The first responses to the round table proposal by the Heritage Party
addressed to the country’s ruling authorities and opposition give food
for thought, Heritage Party faction member Anahit Bakhshyan said at
a April 6 parliamentary session.

According to Bakhshyan, the response creates the impression that the
ruling authorities are ready to make any concessions whatsoever to
foreign powers only to make none to their own country’s opposition,
to civic society, and to private citizens, which would strengthen
the state and make it more realistic that Armenia will not make any
concessions in foreign policy that would put its national interests
under threat.

On the one hand, according to Bakhshyan, some opposition members,
in turn, are ready to encourage the authorities to make foreign
concessions during this dangerous period, and on the other hand,
they might incite a "social explosion."

"Unfortunately, Armenia, at the hands of these two uncompromising
powers, may find itself on the edge of a disaster similar to the
handing over of the Kars castle in 1920, the next scene of which
was the loss of the state. I call on everybody to be sober," said
Bakhshyan.