Referendum as a Means of the Authorities’ Reproduction

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REFERENDUM AS A MEANS OF THE AUTHORITIES’ REPRODUCTION
[04:22 pm] 14 December, 2006

`The idea of canceling the NKR referendum is a guarantee for the
reproduction of the acting authorities’, Hmayak Hovhannisyan,
president of the Union of Armenian Politicians and NA deputy,
announced today.

In his words, the best way of the current authorities’ further
reproduction is the signing of the document on the Karabakh conflict
settlement. With the help of the document the pair Robert Kocharyan –
Serge Sargsyan will secure the issue of their reproduction under the
aegis of superpowers.

Hmayak Hovhannisyan claims that in case they sign the document and the
OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs agree to the signed version of the conflict
settlement, the pair will surely remain in power to implement the
program.

The opposition finds the document signing improbable and they seem to
see no menace for the country. Just on the contrary, they claim that
the acting authorities will not dare to sign the document.

Mr. Hovhannisyan also finds the opinion of certain politicians,
according to which by Zhirayr Sefilyan’s arrest the authorities want
to prove that there is inner discord in connection of that variant of
the conflict solution absurd.

Hmayak Hovhannisyan is concerned that Azerbaijan may agree to that
variant whereas Armenia relies on Azerbaijan’s refusal.