Zhoghovurd: Armenia ex-president is offended
January 18, 2014
YEREVAN. – The well-informed sources of Zhoghovurd daily conveyed very
interesting details about the possible reasons for the polemics
between Armenia’s PM Tigran Sargsyan and second President Robert
Kocharyan, the daily reports.
`Kocharyan told his close circles that he responded to Sargsyan for
but one reason: the current authorities are distorting the reality,
which is offensive.
`Kocharyan said that, during his tenure, [the] construction [business]
was at [its] peak [in Armenia]. In addition, he recalled that, at the
end of his tenure, the poverty [rate in the country] was 27.6 percent,
and the foreign debt, much lower: $1.4 billion.
`And [as per Kocharyan,] the incumbent authorities not only failed to
keep that number, but they further aggravated the situation by making
poverty reach 32.5 percent and the foreign debt, $4.5 billion.
`And, in this situation, criticizing Kocharyan severely offended the
second President,’ Zhoghovurd writes.
News from Armenia – NEWS.am
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