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Haykakan Zhamanak, Armenia
Feb 1 2007
Nevertheless he will run for president
by Kristine Khanumyan
According to a trustworthy source, the president of Nagornyy
Karabakh, Arkadiy Gukasyan, is going to stand as a candidate in the
June 2007 presidential election. This was not unexpected. It became
clear that Gukasyan would not lose his chance to run for a third term
as president after the Nagornyy Karabakh prosecutor general Armen
Zalinyan said, "By adopting the constitution, Nagornyy Karabakh
starts its history from a new page, and the incumbent president may
stand once again."
Otherwise what was the sense of adopting the constitution several
months before the presidential election? The working group developing
the constitution was set up in 2000, but it did almost nothing and
wrote only two chapters of the constitution in six years. Imagine the
enormous work the group must have done in the spring and autumn of
2006 to manage to finish the constitution in time.
After that, people naturally started suspecting that all this was
done to give Gukasyan the opportunity to stand once again. In order
that people wouldn't say "no" to the constitution and wreck
Gukasyan's plans, he said that he would not be standing for the third
time. Then such officials as Vahe Karapetyan, Ara Abraamyan and
Andranik Migranyan started persuading the people not to let Gukasyan
go. They made these statements in order to give the people a
guarantee that the constitution was not adopted for him. But Gukasyan
deceived his own people by giving his word as a man and president in
the knowledge that he would break this word.
Thus we can say almost for sure that Gukasyan will stand for a third
term, but not due to his own desire but in response to the people's
request. But surely Gukasyan cannot fail to realize into what sort of
an adventure he is putting the authority and future of Nagornyy
Karabakh?
Feb 1 2007
Nevertheless he will run for president
by Kristine Khanumyan
According to a trustworthy source, the president of Nagornyy
Karabakh, Arkadiy Gukasyan, is going to stand as a candidate in the
June 2007 presidential election. This was not unexpected. It became
clear that Gukasyan would not lose his chance to run for a third term
as president after the Nagornyy Karabakh prosecutor general Armen
Zalinyan said, "By adopting the constitution, Nagornyy Karabakh
starts its history from a new page, and the incumbent president may
stand once again."
Otherwise what was the sense of adopting the constitution several
months before the presidential election? The working group developing
the constitution was set up in 2000, but it did almost nothing and
wrote only two chapters of the constitution in six years. Imagine the
enormous work the group must have done in the spring and autumn of
2006 to manage to finish the constitution in time.
After that, people naturally started suspecting that all this was
done to give Gukasyan the opportunity to stand once again. In order
that people wouldn't say "no" to the constitution and wreck
Gukasyan's plans, he said that he would not be standing for the third
time. Then such officials as Vahe Karapetyan, Ara Abraamyan and
Andranik Migranyan started persuading the people not to let Gukasyan
go. They made these statements in order to give the people a
guarantee that the constitution was not adopted for him. But Gukasyan
deceived his own people by giving his word as a man and president in
the knowledge that he would break this word.
Thus we can say almost for sure that Gukasyan will stand for a third
term, but not due to his own desire but in response to the people's
request. But surely Gukasyan cannot fail to realize into what sort of
an adventure he is putting the authority and future of Nagornyy
Karabakh?