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NA SPEAKER RECEIVES MASS MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES
[06:18 pm] 28 December, 2007
Today the Speaker of the National Assembly received
Armenian reporters who have covered the activity of
the Armenian Parliament all year round. One could see
all representatives of mass media except for ALM
Holding President Tigran Karapetian.
`I wish all of us fruitful collaboration, tolerance,
boldness to praise the good and the evil and
partnership for the sake of the country. Despite our
preferences, Armenia is our homeland and we must do
our utmost to live a dignified life,’ the Speaker of
the National Assembly Tigran Torossian said in his
addressing speech.
He urged MPs and reporters to forgive each other and
to begin the year with solidarity.
`I think that people shouldn’t connect their
shortcomings with the signs of the zodiac. I wish the
upcoming elections were compliant with international
standards.’
The NA Speaker found pointless to enumerate all
achievements of the passing year. `Nothing
extraordinary has happened this year. I pointed out
Andranik Margarian’s premature decease. As for the
first president’s return to politics, Tigran Torossian
said, `I cannot give any assessments. It is
unreasonable to nurse great hopes from the elections
after ten years’ silence.’
The editor of `De Facto’ magazine Merujan Ter-Gulanian
considers the greatest swinish trick `denigration at
the pre-election period.’
`I anticipate tense struggle, vote tampering, protest
rallies and outside pressure at the first three months
of 2008. Then passions will calm down, and we should
have to think of different articles to entertain
readers,’ editor of `Azg’ Hakob Avetikian said.