Artashes Geghamian Agreed With The Armenian Prime Minister Upon The

ARTASHES GEGHAMIAN AGREED WITH THE ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER UPON THE NECESSITY TO PRESERVE STABILITY IN THE COUNTRY

Mediamax
November 27, 2007

Yerevan /Mediamax/. The political council of "National Unification"
party made a unanimous decision today on nominating Atrashes Geghamian
for the position of the Armenian President.

Mediamax reports that, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan today,
Artashes Geghamian stated that ""National Unification" party plans to
protect the Armenian people from collision of the former and present
authorities".

Geghamian noted that during the consultations of the oppositional
leaders, Ex-President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosian demonstrated
"excessive ambitiousness" and made a decision on the start of his
pre-election campaign. Commenting on the proposal of the Ex-President
to unite the efforts against the present authorities, Artashes
Geghamian stated that he has not undergone "amnesia and remembers the
not so remote 90s". He urged the Ex-President "not use plagiarism,
not to present the ides of "National Unification" party to the society
as his own ideas and behave correctly concerning the personality of
Artashes Geghamian".

Commenting on the media reports, Artashes Geghamian stated that he
really met with the Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian, and
during the meeting, they agreed upon taking up maximum efforts to
preserve the stability in the country.