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SERGE SARGSYAN. “COMPETE IN COMPLIANCE WITH YOUR CAPACITIES”

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“Heydar Aliev’s wishes did not come true”,- announced the RA Prime Minister at the NA today. He reminded Aliev’s promise to equalize Azerbaijan’s 2008 military budget with the RA whole budget. The 2008 RA budget, according to Serge Sargsyan, will be in 2,5 milliard dollars. While Azerbaijan’s military budget in 2008 will be 1 milliard dollars. “That means that Aliev’s wish did not come true”.

The RA military budget will be 400 million dollars as was the whole RA budget in 1998. Answering to the question of the representative of “Orinats Yerkir” party related to the developing economy of Azerbaijan due to oil and the possible threat on Nagorno-Karabakh, Serge Sargsyan said: “Nothing threatens Nagorno-Karabakh’s safety”. He also informed that no developments were registered in Karabakh conflict settlement process.

In his inquiry, Mher Shahgeldyan, a deputy used the phrase “the society is seriously concerned with Karabakh problem”. “I do not agree with you since there are political powers, parties and individuals who do not care of Karabakh, and will be happy if the war restarts and we fail in it”, said the Prime Minister. Later the journalists tried to find out who Serge Sargsyan meant: “You know better, than I do”, replied the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister answered to the question of the opposition himself since they were of political character. He answered to the question of Larisa Alaverdyan referring those citizens who where deprived of their properties for the state needs and noticed that everything needed was done to solve that problem and advised Mrs Alaverdyan not to follow mass media, but meet citizens.

The Prime Minister was annoyed by the question of the representative of “Heritage” party Styopa Safaryan, regarding the number 19 polling station. When during pre-election period in Talin the “Republican Party of Armenia” demanded to vote for Khachik Manukyan.

“Why don’t you compete in compliance with your capacities? Do you enjoy talking about your failure?”, said Serge Sargsyan and advised to forget about post-election processes. Safaryan noted that he talked about pre-election processes. “If you had noticed fraud cases, you would have applied to court”, said Serge Sargsyan and added that the opposition representative agreed with the decisions of the Central Electoral Commission.