V. Manukyan served Kocharyan
During his previous open-air press conference, RA First President, leader of the ANC Levon Ter-Petrosyan didn't answer all the questions that he was given due to lack of time and said he would answer the sharpest questions today.
"Your administration granted the first monopoly in the history of the Third Republic of Armenia. That monopoly went to "ArmenTel" in exchange for 25 million dollars." In response to this, Ter-Petrosyan said:
"Robert Kocharyan signed that deal after my resignation. You shouldn't ask me this question. I am accused of making a deal with the Brandy Factory, but Robert Kocharyan sealed that deal as well."
There was also a question regarding Russian publicist Inessa Burkova's open letter to Ter-Petrosyan. "She helped us in the Karabakh movement with her releases. However, she stayed with the second Karabakh Committee along with Igor Muradyan and Zory Balayan and started going against us. In her open letter, Burkova asked about the murder of hundreds of people and the injuries of thousands. I replied that there had not been any deaths or injuries that day. Inessa kept silent, and she has been keeping silent to this day."
There was also a question regarding the elections in 1996. "You became president due to the falsified elections in 1996 and stole the chair from Vazgen Manukyan."
"I will ask a question running counter to that. How was Vazgen Manukyan elected president when he received 13 percent of the votes in 1998? (He will receive 0 later). Before the second stage, he called on his voters to cast their votes for Stepan Demirchyan and gave Kocharyan what Geghamyan gave Kocharyan with his 10 percent during Kocharyan's second election. Only in 2008 did Vazgen Manukyan and Aram Harutyunyan view the elections legitimate. Vazgen Manukyan received two percent, and as for me, according to their statistics, I had received 20 times more votes. I will ask you to ask them so that we can reveal the truth to the people," Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced.
"You have compared the terms "worship of the race" and "religion of the race" with racism, and what is your opinion of Garegin Nzhdeh?
"That's not my discovery. The meanings of those words are in the dictionary. Nzhdeh died a long time ago, but his ideology lies at the core of Serzh Sargsyan's political party. I have collected rich materials to write about Nzhdeh. I consider him one of the prominent figures of the Armenian nation. I appreciate his endeavor and view the Republican Party of Armenia as his doctrine of worshipping the nation," Levon Ter-Petrosyan responded.
