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    TER-PETROSYAN SUFFERS DEFEAT INSIDE THE COUNTRY
    BY ARMEN TSATOURYAN

    Hayots Ashkhar
    Published on March 01, 2008

    And thus, after a week's desperate attempts of speaking in the
    language of threat and blackmail inside the country and demanding new
    presidential elections, L. Ter-Petrosyan sent "messages" to the world's
    leading countries and the authoritative international organizations
    on February 28, with the purpose of changing the positive assessments
    on the elections.

    A question arises as to what new facts L. Ter-Petrosyan discovered
    during the week following the elections, that he now assumes them as
    a basis for changing the previous assessments regarding the Armenian
    elections? Judging by the contents of the speeches and the statements
    made at the Theatrical Square, Mr. Ter-Petrosyan and his team do not
    have anything new to say.

    So, what makes L. Ter-Petrosyan transfer the blackmail to the "global
    level"? We believe that after keeping his proponents on their feet
    and exhausting them for around 10 days, Mr. Ter-Petrosyan feels that
    he is suffering a defeat in the "war of nerves" waged against the
    authorities. It is conditioned by three main factors.

    First: although the authorities have, up to date, demonstrated
    restraint for unauthorized demonstrations and speeches, having received
    a "complete freedom of hands", L. Ter-Petrosyan and his team did not
    manage to disorganize the government and become the de facto leaders
    of the country.

    Second: the demonstrators listening to Mr. Ter-Petrosyan have
    noticeably got tired, and after the crowded demonstration held on
    February 26, they have been gradually thinning out.

    And finally, third: making consistent steps towards establishing an
    atmosphere of tolerance in the country and especially, advancing
    a proposal on forming a coalition government, the President-elect
    has seized that initiative, consolidating around him the forces and
    activists which attained successful results in the elections. And
    it is not accidental that L. Ter-Petrosyan's desperate addresses
    to the international community preceded the "Agreement on Political
    Cooperation" signed between the newly elected President S. Sargsyan
    and "Rule of Law" leader Arthur Baghdasaryan on February 29.

    Feeling that time has begun working against him, Ter-Petrosyan is now
    setting deadlines for the international community, with a demand to
    review the assessments made on the Armenian elections.

    As a matter of fact, Mr. Ter-Petrosyan's "pan-national movement"
    consists of an "efficient army" of several thousand proponents as well
    as protesting and at the same time cheated people. In order to keep
    the second, more overcrowded mass at the square, all the possible
    and impossible methods have already been applied. The attempts of
    threatening the authorities on behalf of "Yerkrapah" and dismantling
    the state machine by organizing the resignations of various officials
    were no use either.

    That's to say. Mr. Ter-Petrosyan has exhausted and is still exhausting
    all his resources inside the country. The only thing left to do is
    "to rely on the unreliable", hoping that after reviewing its positive
    assessments on the Armenian elections, the international community
    will impart a new spirit to the principal mass of the demonstrators
    and bring the Armenian authorities face to face with complex external
    problems.

    But because the international community, including the world's leading
    countries do not have new grounds for reviewing their previous
    assessments, Ter-Petrosyan is trying to "explain" to them how the
    assessments should be reviewed. He offers them to refrain from the
    "formalist conduct" and question the legitimacy of the elections,
    based on the investigation of the searches, arrests and other facts.

    It turns out that the international community is offered to become
    the patron of a group of people committing illegal actions and very
    often arrested for carrying weapons, something that contradicts not
    only the principles of the OSCE and the international structures,
    but also common sense in general.

    Thus, Ter-Petrosyan's ultimatum presented to the international
    community on February 28 testifies to the fact the author is now in
    urgent need of an external "stimulant" in order not to disappoint
    his own supporters and not to discourage the demonstrations. And this
    means that L. Ter-Petrosyan has found himself in a deadlock.
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