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    Armenian parliament opposition and ruling majority divided over their
    assessments of president Serzh Sargsyan's two-year term in office


    YEREVAN, April 9. /ARKA/. Armenian parliament members from the
    opposition and the ruling majority were divided today in their
    assessments of the first two years of president Serzh Sargsyan's rule.
    President Serzh Sargsyan was inaugurated two years ago on April 9.

    Stepan Safarian, head of the parliamentary faction of the Zharangutyun
    (Heritage) party, said Sargsyan's two-year presidency brought no
    positive changes. `I did not pin hopes on his presidency, never
    supported him and therefore I am not frustrated by his failure to
    fulfill his promises,' he said.

    Another member of the faction, Armen Martirosian, said nothing was
    done to reform the country's judicial system, no economic reforms were
    implemented and the authorities failed also to find and punish the
    people responsible for 2008 March 1-2 bloody events in Yerevan.
    '
    Artsvik Minasian from the Armenian Revolutionary
    Federation/Dashnaktsutyun, said two years of Sargsyan's presidency
    have only raised tension in the country's foreign policy leading to a
    division between Armenia proper and its vast Diaspora because of the
    process he initiated in a bid to improve relations with Turkey.

    However, Heghine Bisharian from the Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law)
    party, a member of the ruling coalition, disagreed with these
    assessments arguing that Sargsyan succeeded in mitigating domestic
    political tension and achieved serious progress in foreign policy.
    Naira Zohrabian from another coalition member party, Prosperous
    Armenia ,underlined the significance of the Armenian-Turkish process
    and progress in the efforts to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    Galust Sahakian, a deputy chairman of Serzh Sargsyan's Republican
    Party, said Sargsyan made the international community look deeper into
    Armenian problems and realize them. -0-
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