AAM IS READY TO TO FORGET THE GENOCIDE AND TURN ARMENIA INTO TURKEY’S APPENDAGE
armradio.am
06.12.2007 13:30
RA President Robert Kocharyan declared in an interview with Golos
Armenii newspaper that he was intentionally giving no assessment to the
activity of the All-Armenian Movement (AAM) and the former authorities.
"I’ve really avoided giving any assessment, but I have explained
my position: I did not want to continue the Soviet traditions, when
every new leader was criticizing the former authorities. I thought
it was necessary to demonstrate results and the people would give
an evaluation seeing the outcome. No activist of the All-Armenian
Movement has been persecuted.
Otherwise, half of them would be imprisoned for robbery. Vano
Siradeghyan is under investigation for organization of murders. I
have avoided the topic for 9 years, until Levon Ter-Petrosyan and
AAM initiated these debates themselves," Robert Kocharyan said.
"Today I say openly that AAM has betrayed people’s confidence. AAM
destroyed the country’s economy, making Armenia one of the poorest
countries of the world. AAM came to power on the wave of the
Karabakh Movement and betrayed it. National ideology is alien to AAM,
it is ready to forget the Genocide and turn Armenia into Turkey’s
appendage. By the way, I’m not saying anything new. All this has been
said hundred times, I’ve simply avoided giving evaluations. Sure,
it does not concern everyone: sometimes specialists appointed to
different positions have tried to undertake something to simplify
the situation," RA President said.