AIM, Heritage ready to cooperate with ANC
Levon Ter-Petrosyan is likely to cooperate with Serzh Sargsyan on a particular political issue, Paruyr Hayrikyan, leader of the National Self-Determination Union (AIM), said on Monday.
Hayrikyan says if ‘the Armenian National Congress (ANC) fails to take Republican's place as the main political force, we shall witness repetition of the events that followed the 1999 parliamentary elections.'
"Levon Ter-Petrosyan may shake hands with Serzh Sargsyan the same way as Karen Demirchyan (the leader of the People's Party of Armenia, political force represented in the ANC) did with second President Robert Kocharyan and Vazgen Sargsyan," said the AIM leader.
Referring to the possible cooperation with the ANC, Hayrikyan said that the ANC's struggle against the authorities is not a sufficient condition for cooperation. At the same time, both Hayrikyan and his collocutor Ruben Hakobyan (vice-chairman of the Heritage Party) said they are ready to cooperate with the ANC in order to force the authorities to make electoral amendments.
Kocharyan acts alone?
Speaking about Robert Kocharyan's possible return to big politics, Ruben Hakobyan said that the second president has not actually quitted politics.
"I cannot understand why Kocharyan's activity is linked to the processes taking place in Russia. This is really humiliating," said the Heritage representative.
For his part, Paruyr Hayrikyan noted that Kocahryan acts as a freelance political figure which ‘is not normal.'
"I'm prejudiced against Robert Kocharyan for the March 2008 tragic clashes and the persecutions against the AIM, therefore, I hold a biased opinion," said Hayrikyan.
