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ARMENIAN LEADERS UNDERSTAND ONLY LANGUAGE OF FORCE. OPPOSITION AWAITS SERZH SARGSYAN'S RESPONSE
epress.am
06.17.2011 17:24
The authorities had place their hopes on the fact that there won't be
elections for three years, there shouldn't be any issues before them
and the opposition has to slowly wear out. Armenia's serious analysts
were seriously predicting that this movement was going to fall apart.
They were saying that the opposition usually comes together just
before elections and attempts to break the authorities' stronghold,
and when this doesn't succeed, it crumbles. And it gathers again
before the next elections. This is the first time that all those
analysts were wrong, said Armenian National Congress (HAK) senior
representative Levon Zurabyan, speaking at the opening of HAK's new
office in the Yerevan administrative district of Davtashen.
According to Zurabyan, from February to May, the opposition held
quite a serious campaign of rallies: the authorities realized that
the political tension had reached such a level that there remained
a fine line for events in Armenia to mimic the Arab Spring, and this
was the reason that the authorities decided to accept their proposal
or demands, he said.
As for the dialogue between HAK and the authorities, Zurabyan said "We
have to receive a response from [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan."
"We have absolutely no intention of aggravating the situation and
pursuing those responses that have been heard as a pretext. We need
very serious clarity and for a reasonable time, we're giving it. We
need to know whether the authorities accept or reject this proposal.
And there has to be clarity here. Partial, sloppy answers don't
satisfy us. The authorities are obliged to introduce such clarity. If
they say 'yes,' that means the authorities are willing to solve this
deep political crisis through peaceful talks; if they say 'no,' that
means one thing: they are again, in fact, challenging the people;
again they say, come, gather, show your strength, because we don't
understand any other language apart from force," he said.
epress.am
06.17.2011 17:24
The authorities had place their hopes on the fact that there won't be
elections for three years, there shouldn't be any issues before them
and the opposition has to slowly wear out. Armenia's serious analysts
were seriously predicting that this movement was going to fall apart.
They were saying that the opposition usually comes together just
before elections and attempts to break the authorities' stronghold,
and when this doesn't succeed, it crumbles. And it gathers again
before the next elections. This is the first time that all those
analysts were wrong, said Armenian National Congress (HAK) senior
representative Levon Zurabyan, speaking at the opening of HAK's new
office in the Yerevan administrative district of Davtashen.
According to Zurabyan, from February to May, the opposition held
quite a serious campaign of rallies: the authorities realized that
the political tension had reached such a level that there remained
a fine line for events in Armenia to mimic the Arab Spring, and this
was the reason that the authorities decided to accept their proposal
or demands, he said.
As for the dialogue between HAK and the authorities, Zurabyan said "We
have to receive a response from [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan."
"We have absolutely no intention of aggravating the situation and
pursuing those responses that have been heard as a pretext. We need
very serious clarity and for a reasonable time, we're giving it. We
need to know whether the authorities accept or reject this proposal.
And there has to be clarity here. Partial, sloppy answers don't
satisfy us. The authorities are obliged to introduce such clarity. If
they say 'yes,' that means the authorities are willing to solve this
deep political crisis through peaceful talks; if they say 'no,' that
means one thing: they are again, in fact, challenging the people;
again they say, come, gather, show your strength, because we don't
understand any other language apart from force," he said.