PEOPLE’S PARTY OF ARMENIA TO BACK LEVON TER-PETROSIAN
ARMENPRESS
Nov 9, 2007
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS; Stepan Demirchian, chairman of
the People’s Party of Armenia, said today his party will support
ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosian’s presidential bid and urged all
other opposition groups to unite in a broad alliance and support the
former president in the 2008 election.
Speaking to a news conference he said otherwise the opposition would
sustain another defeat. According to Stepan Demirchian, ex-president
Levon Ter-Petrosian is the only opposition candidate who is capable
of defeating the pro-government candidates.
Stepan Demirchian predicted that the main struggle will be between
Ter-Petrosian and prime minister Serzh Sarkisian.
He said the years when Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Movement
(ANM) ruled the country were difficult years.
Many officials in Ter-Petrosian’s administration committed serious
mistakes but were not held responsible," Demirchian said, but added
that he believes that the first post-Soviet Armenian president has
revised his past.
He also spoke about the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
saying a dignified peace can be achieved only through mutual
concessions and supported the idea of Nagorno-Karabakh authorities’
involvement in the talks.
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