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    DASHNAK LEADER SEES RISING INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON ARMENIA
    Karine Kalantarian

    http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/2059223.html
    01.06.2010

    Armenia -- Vahan Hovannisian, a leader of the opposition Armenian
    Revolutionary Federation, at a news conference, 1June 2010.

    Armenia is facing mounting international pressure over the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and relations with Turkey, a leader of
    the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun)
    said on Tuesday.

    Vahan Hovannisian claimed that foreign powers are also pressing the
    Armenian government to improve its human rights record "for less than
    sincere motives." "These pressures have significantly increased of
    late," he told a news conference.

    Hovannisian, who leads the party's parliamentary faction, pointed to
    the European Union's May 20 resolution demanding "the withdrawal of
    Armenian forces from all occupied territories of Azerbaijan."

    He said the alleged pressure results from the Armenian authorities'
    tendency to make and enforce controversial decisions on various
    issues in disregard of public opinion and opposition protests. The
    international community now feels that they can "impose any solution"
    on Armenians, he said.

    "Our authorities have failed to realize that they can have a strong
    position in the international arena only if they have a strong
    rear," complained Hovannisian. "That is, a society trusting in the
    authorities. We don't have such a society today."

    "Our authorities must realize that they have to listen to the
    voice of the opposition ... that not listening to the opposition
    leads to deadlock," he said, adding that by "opposition" he means
    Dashnaktsutyun.

    Dashnaktsutyun left President Serzh Sarkisian's governing coalition
    in April 2009 in protest against his Western-backed policy of
    rapprochement with Turkey. While condemning that policy, the
    nationalist party has so far avoided seeking Sarkisian's resignation,
    a stance criticized by other, more radical opposition groups.




    From: A. Papazian
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