FIRST ARMENIAN PRESIDENT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENCY AGAIN
RIA Novosti
Oct 26 2007
Russia
YEREVAN, October 26 (RIA Novosti) – Armenia’s first president, Levon
Ter-Petrosyan, said at an opposition rally on Friday that he would
run in 2008 presidential elections. Ter-Petrosyan began his political
career in the 1960s, and in 1989 was elected deputy of the Supreme
Soviet of the Armenian Republic. After the collapse of the Soviet
Union, he was elected Armenian president in 1991, and reelected in
1996. He resigned in February 1998 following a series of political
and economic problems.
The conflict over Nagorny Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan with a
largely Armenian population, first erupted in 1988 when it declared
independence from Azerbaijan and moved to join Armenia. The current
Armenian president is Robert Kocharyan, elected in 1998, and reelected
for a second, and according to the Armenian Constitution, final term
in 2003.