RA PRESIDENT TREATS QUIETLY CIRCUMSTANCE THAT GEORGE BUSH HAS NOT CONGRATULATED SERGE SARGSIAN YET
Noyan Tapan
March 20, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 20, NOYAN TAPAN. We should treat very quietly the
circumstance that newly elected RA President Serge Sargsian has not
received a congratulation from U.S. President George Bush yet. Stating
this at the March 20 press conference, RA President Robert Kocharian
reminded the journalists that on the occasion of being elected RA
President in 1998 and 2003 he received congratulations from President
Bush only after assuming his post. "It did not hamper me to work
efficiently, did not hamper RA to have in average 13 percent economic
growth, did not hamper to cooperate very efficiently with the United
States, to implement very efficient programs," the RA President said
adding: "Maybe that is a good sign." He also noted that the elections
are not held in Armenia for receiving congratulations from some place,
one can congratulate a little early, the other a little late. "It also
depends on political calculations, on Ambassadors working there,
on the reports they write, on the circumstance which candidate
they sympathize, it depends on many other political calculations,"
Kocharian said.