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    Armenian opposition leader partially approves president's Strasbourg speech

    Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
    3 Jul 04

    [Presenter] The Armenian president's [Robert Kocharyan's] assessments
    of Nagornyy Karabakh's relations with Turkey and of regional
    cooperation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
    [PACE] were correct enough, Shavarsh Kocharyan, from the opposition
    Justice bloc and the leader of the National Democratic Party, said
    after the event.

    [Shavarsh Kocharyan, captioned] The positions on the Karabakh issue,
    which were expressed for the first time at PACE, should have been
    voiced earlier. He should, first, have talked about Nagornyy
    Karabakh's structure since it has not been a part of independent
    Azerbaijan. This regards not only the period after the collapse of the
    Soviet Union till now, but also regards the period of the first
    republic [1918]. He did not speak about this, which was the most
    important.

    Second, here the problem is not a problem of territorial integrity
    between two countries [Armenia and Azerbaijan], but a problem of
    self-determination. Consequently Karabakh must be a party in the
    negotiations [to settle the conflict].

    [Presenter] Then it turned out that Shavarsh Kocharyan's absence from
    the session hall during Robert Kocharyan's speech at PACE was the
    result of the opposition activist's honour. The member of the Justice
    bloc said that he was obliged to be out of the hall, otherwise he
    would have also had to applaud the president, which parliamentary
    etiquette demands.

    [Shavarsh Kocharyan] I could not have applauded and this would have
    been incorrect.
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