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Armenian parliament leader and US ambassador did not hold secret
meeting - spokesperson
February 16, 2013 | 13:36
YEREVAN. - Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan on
Thursday met with US Ambassador John Heffern not as the NA leader, but
rather as chief of the election campaign headquarters of the ruling
Republican Party (RPA) leader and presidential candidate, incumbent
President Serzh Sargsyan, the NA speaker's spokeswoman Gohar Poghosyan
told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
She noted that the said meeting with the US ambassador was not secret,
and deputy headquarters chiefs - Deputy PM and Territorial
Administration Minister - Armen Gevorgyan and - RPA MP - Davit Harutyunyan
likewise attended the talk, during which they discussed the electoral
processes, activities of the campaign headquarters, etc.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, John Heffern on Thursday
met with Hovik Abrahamyan, Zhamanak daily reported.
`In all likelihood, the US ambassador discussed with Abrahamyan
matters linked to the presidential election [to be held in Armenia on
February 18], since he [that is, Abrahamyan] heads Serzh Sargsyan's
[campaign] headquarters.
But this meeting is noteworthy in the sense that the US embassy - or,
similarly, America - does not accept Abrahamyan all that much as the NA
speaker, and considers him a part of Armenia's criminal-oligarchic
system.
[But] it is noteworthy that neither the NA nor the US embassy released
an official statement with respect to the meeting of Abrahamyan and
Heffern; and this could be their first meeting,' Zhamanak wrote.
http://news.am/eng/news/140578.html
meeting - spokesperson
February 16, 2013 | 13:36
YEREVAN. - Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan on
Thursday met with US Ambassador John Heffern not as the NA leader, but
rather as chief of the election campaign headquarters of the ruling
Republican Party (RPA) leader and presidential candidate, incumbent
President Serzh Sargsyan, the NA speaker's spokeswoman Gohar Poghosyan
told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
She noted that the said meeting with the US ambassador was not secret,
and deputy headquarters chiefs - Deputy PM and Territorial
Administration Minister - Armen Gevorgyan and - RPA MP - Davit Harutyunyan
likewise attended the talk, during which they discussed the electoral
processes, activities of the campaign headquarters, etc.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, John Heffern on Thursday
met with Hovik Abrahamyan, Zhamanak daily reported.
`In all likelihood, the US ambassador discussed with Abrahamyan
matters linked to the presidential election [to be held in Armenia on
February 18], since he [that is, Abrahamyan] heads Serzh Sargsyan's
[campaign] headquarters.
But this meeting is noteworthy in the sense that the US embassy - or,
similarly, America - does not accept Abrahamyan all that much as the NA
speaker, and considers him a part of Armenia's criminal-oligarchic
system.
[But] it is noteworthy that neither the NA nor the US embassy released
an official statement with respect to the meeting of Abrahamyan and
Heffern; and this could be their first meeting,' Zhamanak wrote.
http://news.am/eng/news/140578.html