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    WOMEN MPS BEAR DOUBLE RESPONSIBILITY
    By Susanna Margarian, Translated by L.H.

    AZG Armenian Daily #164
    11/09/2007

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    "I am here to explain how great is to have women in the parliament",
    told the journalists member of "Zharangutyun" party Larisa Alaverdian
    at a press conference in "Urbat" club on September 6, after sharing
    her viewpoints on the issues of Karabakh and the preferable image of
    the candidate of president.

    The journalists were more interested in the issue connected with the
    member of "Zharangutyun" party and its representative in the Central
    Electoral Commission Zoya Tadevosian, who signed the statement of the
    CEC about the validity of the elections in the 15th Electoral District.

    It's worth to mention that the leader of the same party Raffi
    Hovhannisian, who put his candidacy in the 15 ED, lost the elections
    and announced that the elections were falsified. It means that
    Z. Tadevosian acted against their party's leader.

    Larisa Alaverdian mentioned that CEC member only confirms the data
    that come from the Election Centers, and then added that the viewpoint
    of Vardan Khachatrian "Zoya Tadevosian have to take a correction"
    the journalists might understand as "correction".

    What about the Karabakh issue, the MP announced that it's not
    acceptable to put into circulation "the independence of Nagorno
    Karabakh instead of the territories under the control of the Armenian
    armed forces" resolution. According to Larisa Alaverdian those
    territories are part of Nagorno Karabakh, they are the liberated and
    re-integrated lands.

    Larisa Alaverdian does not agree with the concern over the draft
    law by the leader of Zharangutyun Raffi Hovhannisian about "de jure"
    recognition of Karabakh and that it will have a negative effect on
    the negotiation process. "The attitude of Azerbaijan is more extreme,
    but it doesn't impede the negotiations", she underlined.

    What about the preferable theme of Larisa Alaverdian about women in
    parliament, she reminded about an old saying: "a smart woman in any
    society is to prevent a man from doing any unreasonableness".

    "Armenia is in the 123rd position of the 138 countries' list of the
    involvement of women in parliament. "We must follow the example of
    the democratic Republic of South Africa, which is in the 13th place
    of the list", mentioned MP Larisa Alverdian.
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