EVOLUTIONARY WAY OF REFORMS DIDN’T PROVE EFFECTIVE, ARAM KARAPETIAN
DECLARES AT MEETING WITH COUNCIL OF ELDERS OF FORUM OF INTELLIGENTSIA
YEREVAN, APRIL 4, NOYAN TAPAN. “The authorities should understand that
the wave of people’s rage will be too large this time and neither
barbed wire nor shields of special detachments will save them. We
are sure that we will be able to gather a great mass of discontented
people, under whose pressure the authorities will have to resign,” Aram
Karapetian, Chairman of Nor Zhamanakner (New Times) party, declared
at the April 4 meeting with the members of the Council of Elders of
Forum of Intelligentsia. In Karapetian’s opinion, the evolutionary
way of reforms in the country didn’t prove effective. “We don’t deny
some positive fenomena but the evolutionary reforms don’t give the
expected results. Unfortunately, a cemetery stability was established
in the country and the only way out of the formed moral atmosphere and
hardest socio-economic condition of people is revolution,” the Chairman
of Nor Zhamanakner party declared. He assured that the processes will
proceed within political framework but “if the authorities apply force
we are ready to repulse.” Aram Karapetian reported that on April 5
the representatives of Nor Zhamanakner party are meeting with the
members of Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) party. “We proposed that
the Orinats Yerkir withdraw from coalition.” The meeting with the
leader of Nor Zhamanakner party was held within the framework of the
series of meetings organized by the Council of Elders of Forum of
Intelligentsia with representatives of influential political forces.
To recap, on March 31 an analogous meeting with Hovhannes Hovhannisian,
Chairman of Liberal-Progressive Party of Armenia, was held. A meeting
with Aram Sargsian, a member of the political board of Hanrapetutiun
(Republic) party, is planned for the nearest future.