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ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONISTS COMMENT ON 'GROUND ZERO' PROPOSAL
12:09 ~U 17.01.13
Tert.am has talked to representatives of the political forces
affiliated with the opposition Armenian National Congress to know
their opinion about a proposed plan for starting everything from zero.
It comes after Nikol Pashinyan published two articles - "Ground
Zero" and "Beginning the Political Year" - addressing the problem
of emigration from Armenia and a recent Facebook news conference
in which the ANC activist explained his political force's policies
following the March 2008 post-electoral developments.
In an article published in Pashinyan's Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper,
a former ANC member, Sasun Mikaelyyan (who headed a detachment during
the Nagorno-Karabakh war), had criticized the alliance's policies of
the past year, particularly the decision not to field a presidential
candidate for this year's election. He characterized the move as an
"escape from the battlefield" and used such terms as "unforseeing
political flirts", "deviation from the clearly arranged pan-national
struggle", etc/
Commenting on Mikaelyan's article, Grigor Harutyunyan of the Armenian
People's party said he shares the author's concerns. "I see grounds
behind Sasun's concerns, but there is a question I do not accept. With
regard to participation in the elections, I have always said that
scheduled polls will yield no result," he told our correspondent.
Harutyunyan thinks the ANC's relations with the Prosperous Armenia
party could be behind what the activist had described as a "political
flirt". "To some extent, yes; nothing should have been said really. I
didn't accept that either ... but that cannot be termed as a political
flirt," he said.
Asked about the necessity of the Zero Ground plan, a member of the ANC
Central Office Arshak Banuchyan said a change of tactics might be at
issue. "The ANC"s tactics was to re-establish the constitutional order
through constitutional methods, and nothing set out in the Declaration
was infringed," he told Tert.am, considering the atmosphere in the
ANC quite normal.
First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who now heads the opposition
alliance, had earlier refrained from commenting on the published
material. In an interview with iLur.am, Ter-Petrosyan said that
highly praising the activist's contribution to the re-establishment
of independent Armenia and the liberalization of Artsakh, he could
not permit himself to say anything about his article.
http://tert.am/en/news/2013/01/17/hak-zro/
From: A. Papazian
12:09 ~U 17.01.13
Tert.am has talked to representatives of the political forces
affiliated with the opposition Armenian National Congress to know
their opinion about a proposed plan for starting everything from zero.
It comes after Nikol Pashinyan published two articles - "Ground
Zero" and "Beginning the Political Year" - addressing the problem
of emigration from Armenia and a recent Facebook news conference
in which the ANC activist explained his political force's policies
following the March 2008 post-electoral developments.
In an article published in Pashinyan's Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper,
a former ANC member, Sasun Mikaelyyan (who headed a detachment during
the Nagorno-Karabakh war), had criticized the alliance's policies of
the past year, particularly the decision not to field a presidential
candidate for this year's election. He characterized the move as an
"escape from the battlefield" and used such terms as "unforseeing
political flirts", "deviation from the clearly arranged pan-national
struggle", etc/
Commenting on Mikaelyan's article, Grigor Harutyunyan of the Armenian
People's party said he shares the author's concerns. "I see grounds
behind Sasun's concerns, but there is a question I do not accept. With
regard to participation in the elections, I have always said that
scheduled polls will yield no result," he told our correspondent.
Harutyunyan thinks the ANC's relations with the Prosperous Armenia
party could be behind what the activist had described as a "political
flirt". "To some extent, yes; nothing should have been said really. I
didn't accept that either ... but that cannot be termed as a political
flirt," he said.
Asked about the necessity of the Zero Ground plan, a member of the ANC
Central Office Arshak Banuchyan said a change of tactics might be at
issue. "The ANC"s tactics was to re-establish the constitutional order
through constitutional methods, and nothing set out in the Declaration
was infringed," he told Tert.am, considering the atmosphere in the
ANC quite normal.
First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who now heads the opposition
alliance, had earlier refrained from commenting on the published
material. In an interview with iLur.am, Ter-Petrosyan said that
highly praising the activist's contribution to the re-establishment
of independent Armenia and the liberalization of Artsakh, he could
not permit himself to say anything about his article.
http://tert.am/en/news/2013/01/17/hak-zro/
From: A. Papazian