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TIME WILL COME, AND DALLAQYAN WILL MAKE UP HIS MIND

Politics

“When the most important moment comes, I will decide how to participate in the 2007 Parliamentary elections”, today in “Pastark” club NA deputy Viktor Dallaqyan neither confirmed nor refuted the information about his participation in the elections as member of “Prosperous Armenia”. Instead, he referred to the possible developments of the inner political situation in Armenia.

According to him, the 2007 Parliamentary elections, the confrontations inside the authorities, the Karabakh conflict, the end of the office of Robert Kocharyan, as well as other issues can affect the inner political situation in Armenia. In Contrast to 2003, this time the Presidential elections will follow the Parliamentary ones. “Those political powers which will be dominating after the Parliamentary elections will influence the Presidential elections”, Mr. Dallaqyan mentioned.

Although the deputy thinks that during the past 15 years Armenia suffered from the problem of fabricated elections, this time there is a chance to organize free and fair elections in 2007. According to him, we must put an end to the slogan of Nicaraguan despot Samosa, “You won during the elections, I won while calculating the votes”.

In the organization of free and fair elections Mr. Dallaqyan found the order of formation of the electoral committees important. “The electoral committees must consist of equal numbers of representatives of the authorities and the opposition”.

As for the 2008 budget which according to the Prime Minister is just wonderful, Viktor Dallaqyan thinks it is another “survival budget”.

Dallaqyan drew parallels between the budgets of Armenia and Azerbaijan and drew a sad conclusion, “The settlement of the Karabakh conflict has been taken to the economic field. The country which has stronger economy will be dominating while settling the conflict”.

In order to show the gap between the economic development of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Viktor Dallaqyan enumerated, “In 2003-2007 the budget of Azerbaijan rose 8 times, whereas that of Armenia – four times. During the last nine months the economic growth of Azerbaijan was 34%, whereas that of Armenia- 12.5%. Besides, the state budget of Azerbaijan allots 1 billion USD to the defense of the country, whereas that of Armenia – only 263 million USD”.