"THE KARABAKH CONFLICT IS NO ONE’S PROPERTY"
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[08:23 pm] 18 December, 2006
"The authorities are trying to nip the political struggle in the bud",
announced leader of Liberal -Progressive Party of Armenia Hovhannes
Hovhannisyan in "Pastark" club. He assured that all the steps of the
authorities are directed towards the realization of that aim.
According to him, the struggle for the 2007 Parliamentary elections is
out of political discussions, "That struggle is based on ‘good guys’
and their wealth. The authorities do everything in order to exclude the
existence of political will and development in Armenia. As a result
of that the authorities announce that we are going to elections but
we have no right to speak about problems, particularly about the
Karabakh conflict".
Referring to Robert Kocharyan’s statement that it would be immoral to
use the Karabakh conflict during the elections, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan
said, "What is immoral is to use the Karabakh conflict in order to
keep power. The Karabakh conflict is no one’s property and all the
Armenians must contribute to its settlement. The Karabakh conflict is
the most important component of the RA foreign policy, and if they tell
us we must not speak about that component, it is at least surprising".
Mr. Hovhannisyan also claimed that during the last eight years the
authorities have not had any progress in the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict. "The authorities did everything to make the parliament the
marionette of the executive power and they succeeded in 2003. Today
they are trying to do the same in 2007.
This way they are casting a shadow on the future of our people".