Yerjanik Abgaryan, a member of the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM) executive committee, says
“I am generally for every kind of cooperation, which can cause certain changes to the political stage,” Yerjanik Abgaryan, a member of the PANM executive committee, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am yesterday, in response to our question whether he shared the concerns that existed inside the Congress regarding the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) now. According to Yerjanik Abgaryan, “I think it is just a preliminary communication without guarantees. The sides must give guarantees – in this case, this, in that case, that. And guaranteed are very important, because it is very common in democratic Armenia to leap from one place to another, I mean, from one camp to another. Therefore, I think that all political forces have to think with their colleagues about creating guarantees. Naturally, the same thing applies to the ANC, which should also have a respective basis of guarantees. It can be done in a very short period of time with a few specific joint statements, according to which, they would undertake obligations regarding the issue.”
In response to a question whether the Congress wouldn’t give the green light to “Kocharyanism,” as Davit Shahnazaryan says, by cooperating with the PAP, Mr. Abgaryan said, “I don’t agree with Davit Shahnazaryan on that issue. Roughly one year ago, I stated that Kocharyan would rather see his back than power. I am convinced that whatever games Kocharyan plays, he will not be in the government anymore, even in this kind of a government, which is the continuation of his dear government.”
In response to our question whether he didn’t consider the PAP Kocharyan’s party, whether he thought that Kocharyan had nothing to do with the PAP, Yerjanik Abgaryan said, “You know what, there are many things, there are many factors, it is very hard to unequivocally claim that this is Kocharyan’s party and that one is not, because we sometimes forget that there have been cases, when in such situations, the issue was solved differently. There is also such a possibility in Armenia today. I don’t want to link it to a specific person visible or invisible, but let us not forget that this option is also there.”
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We inquired whether he could make any predictions in regard to a common candidate in the presidential election. Mr. Abgaryan assured, “I think that speculations about a common candidate are inappropriate, because it would only help the government unite. I think that the opposition should have, at least, 3 strong candidates. In that case, the second round will be unavoidable. There are merely no political grounds for a common candidate today.”
HRIPSIME JEBEJYAN
