“I don’t think that this is also the opinion of the PAP, because the PAP has never taken such a stance during the past years. If they had taken such a position, the party, certainly, wouldn’t have remained in the coalition. We have cooperated very well and we share the responsibility for both successes and failures,” Gagik Minasyan, a Republican Party MP, said to www.aravot.am, talking about the statements of Vartan Oskanian, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs currently being in the second place on the PAP list, expressed on Radio Liberty. Let us remind that the latter said that the political coalition ruling during the past four years had been formal and the Republican Party had done what it had liked, therefore, the Republican Party was fully responsible for the hard socio-economic conditions existing in the country. Gagik Minasyan is inclined to think that it is Oskanian’s personal opinion, which he doesn’t comment on. “I am convinced that the PAP position on the problem today, as during the past years, is not like the one expressed by Mr. Oskanian, because of a simple reason that if it had such a position, it would leave the coalition today,” said our interlocutor, adding that he was convinced, “Oskanian’s assessments only aim at discrediting the PAP, blaming the party for being opportunistic. It is an ungrateful attitude toward the PAP.”
In response to the next question of www.aravot.am whether Vartan Oskanian was deliberately planted in the PAP to discredit the PAP, Gagik Minasyan said that he could express no opinion on that issue. Our interlocutor also refused to comment on a statement of Vahan Babayan – he is in the 19th place on the PAP list for proportional representation – expressed in a press club today that the coalition basically doesn’t exist anymore, explaining that he was not aware of that statement.
Nelly GRIGORYAN
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