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    IF INVITED AGAIN, ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER WILL BE PLEASED TO VISIT BAKU

    November 28, 2012 | 12:39

    YEREVAN. - Armenia's opposition Heritage Party Chairman Raffi
    Hovannisian has not regretted going to Azerbaijani capital city Baku
    and, if invited again, he will be pleased to go, Hovannisian himself
    stated during a press conference on Wednesday.

    To note, Raffi Hovannisian had visited Baku to attend and address
    the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP),
    to which he was invited as leader of the Heritage Party.

    The party chairman informed that the ICAAP conference kicked in the
    morning of November 22, but, prior to that, the Azerbaijani reporters
    had approached him and posed questions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani
    challenges and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    "It was decided that my keynote address be covered as little as
    possible. The address was followed by the addresses of the Azerbaijani
    co-chairs," Hovannisian said.

    Also, he informed that in the morning of the previous day, a draft
    resolution-which reflected neither on Armenia nor Azerbaijan nor
    Karabakh-was included in the conference agenda. "But on the morning of
    November 23, when I came to deliver my address, a change was apparent.

    The agenda had changed, [and] the adoption [of the aforesaid
    resolution] was removed from the agenda. It was apparent that something
    else was being prepared. They had decided to create an illusion of
    ratifying [the resolution] by way of reading [it]; that resolution was
    read, but it was never agreed upon," the Heritage Party Chairman said.

    Also, Raffi Hovannisian noted that many were hearing the Armenian
    viewpoint for the first time, and he underscored that Armenia needs
    to be present everywhere to balance the diplomatic shortfalls.

    While in Baku, the Armenian opposition party leader also asked that
    he meet with an Armenian family, but this meeting did not take place
    because no such family was found.

    Photo by Sona Barseghyan/NEWS.am

    http://news.am/eng/news/130294.html

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