ARMENIAN PRESIDENT: "IT IS DESIRABLE THAT EVERYTHING DECLINES ITSELF AND THAT THERE IS NO NEED TO USE FORCE"
Mediamax
February 29, 2008
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Robert Kocharian described
today as "predictable" the actions of Ex-President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
Mediamax reports that, holding a meeting today with the students
of Yerevan State University (YSU), Robert Kocharian noted that "the
germ for this was already there two weeks prior to the elections –
already then one of the candidates declared his victory, and from
this point of view, his today’s actions are natural".
Armenian President proposed four scenarios of the further development
of the situation:
a. massive events actively continue with an effort to attract new
people, however, the society undergoes strong disappointment and does
not forgive the guilty ones for its stressful state; b. hopelessness
brings the participants of the protest to the repetition of 1996, when
the participants of the protests tried to seize state structures –
in this case, the law-enforcement bodies will suppress such actions;
c. leaders of the protests thank the people for support, preserving
their influence over those people and get prepared for the next
elections; d. leaders of the protests thank the society for support,
congratulate the newly-elected President, ask to be well-disposed to
the arrested and "start writing another scientific work".
Armenian President stated that the authorities are ready to any of
these scenarios.
Robert Kocharian stated that the authorities continue waiting
patiently for the protest actions to decline themselves. Otherwise,
the authorities will be forces to defend the constitutional order,
and many people, now on the platforms of the rally, will be brought
to account, the President stated.
At the same time, according to the President, it is desirable that
"everything declines itself and there is not need to use force".