Leader of “Dashink” Party Samvel Bababayan says.
– In one of your interviews you didn\’t give any reply to the question about NK issue police saying that there is no policy carried out there. Does it mean that you are dissatisfied with the process of NK conflict settlement?
– There is no problem to complain or be satisfied yet. There is also no danger, since the parties still negotiate and no document is being signed. I wouldn\’t like to give any remark beforehand. In general, I think that we are far from the conflict settlement.
– How is your party\’s political orientation before presidential elections, do you support the authorities or the opposition?
– It is inadmissible for me to divide the parties into oppositionist and authority. The oppositionists are oppositionist because nothing is offered in the authority. Thus “Dashink” Party supports neither the authorities nor the opposition. We have presented our standpoints about foreign, internal, economic polices, about NK conflict, and if any candidate will represent a project, which will correspond to our ideology, we will support those forces. In general we are an ideological opposition.
– Are you going to join “Ramkavar-Liberal Party of Armenia (RLPA) and “National Renaissance” parties, how the issue of the party\’s president will be solved?
– As you remember we declared in the first session of our party in 2005, that we would try to unify the political field. Nowadays “Dashink” Party intends to join RLPA. The day of session is already determined. It will take place on November 24, in the hall of sittings of the government.
– So your ideology is closer to the Ramkavar-Liberal Party of Armenia.
– Yes, because we are the bearers of liberal ideas.
– It is already clear that the presidential candidate from the authority will be Serge Sargsyan, what is your personal attitude towards him?
– Serge Sargsyan\’s and my relations are manipulated in the press. We have normal relations. We may have discrepancies about ideas, but not hostility. As for other presidential candidates, ARF candidate or Levon Ter-Petrosyan, we\’ll see their projects and will decide after whom we will support. Nothing is excluded.
– So it isn\’t excluded that you may defend either Serge Cragsman\’s or Levon Ter-Petrosyan\’s candidacies. Is it possible?
– Why net. Let me explain. ANM is a bearer of liberal ideas, isn\’t it? But I want to understand their standpoint regarding the NK conflict settlement.
– It was said approximately on September 21.
– If it is so, I can\’t support Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
– Does it mean that you are satisfied with the current authorities\’ carried out policy on NK issue?
– I am not informed about negotiation. When the document is ready and presented to the NK, I will give my remark that time.
– In what case will you go back to Karabagh?
– If there is a dangerous situation and I am needed, I will leave for Karabagh immediately. But nowadays developments show that everything is decided in Yerevan and I should be here. I can\’t carry out policy in Artsakh.
– How do you remark the First President\’s return to the policy? How do explain his return?
– Maybe he worries about the current situation, that\’s why he returns. Maybe it is his team\’s wish. When you read Levon Ter-Petrosyan\’s small speech, you think that anxiety makes him to return. But when you see that he is surrounded by the same team, you think that it is his team\’s desire.