RAFFI HOVANNISSIAN GIVES REASONS

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“The lack of lawfulness and legitimacy in Armenia affects the country’s foreign policy,” Leader of Zharangutiun (Heritage) Party Raffi Hovannissian and member of the Armenian delegation to the PACE, told a press conference today.

Today Raffi Hovannissian explained why he had boycotted the PACE session. He says the Armenian delegation invested all its resource and potential to make the resolution a little acceptable, meanwhile if Armenia is a democratic state, our delegation could be more effective and compete with our neighbours, and would not be measured by the same scales.

“Armenia’s external ties and the Artash conflict are in a state of neglect. The sad resolution adopted in the United Nations Organisation is an anti-historic and illegal document which was put into effect by international organisations. Each Armenian should worry about the state of democracy in Armenia.”

Mr. Hovannissian is confident that if we had taken a test on democracy during Kocharian’s office and made the country a legal and democratic state, we could represent Armenia at the PACE in due order.

The questions are interrelated and we cannot imitate to be democratic and conceal our shortcomings,” he said.

Raffi Hovannissian drew the presentees’ attention to the fact that the PACE president considers Nagorno-Karabakh as an occupied territory by the Republic of Armenia while NKR is an Azeri territory. “Firstly, we must blame ourselves because our non-democratic stance found such a feedback.”

Raffi Hovannisian says when the PACE president is expected to arrive in Armenia next week and it is worthwhile to ask him on the basis of which facts he considers Karabakh as an occupied territory.

As of President Serzh Sarkissian’s statements to introduce reforms in the country, the Zharangutiun leader said, “Words and actions are uncompliant in Armenia. Only pan-national election will change the current scene.”