“I am neither discouraged, nor encouraged,” Vahagn Hayotsyan, a deputy chairman of the PANM executive committee, said in response to Aravot’s question whether the call for waiting for a few more days in the Armenian National Congress (ANC) leader’s speech discouraged him much, adding that he hadn’t expected any statement today. In response to our question how he would comment on the fact that parliamentary parties had been invited to the congress, but there had been no representative of the PAP, Hayotsyan said: “I don’t know the PAP by sight. Perhaps, they were present.”
And Tigran Urikhanyan, the press secretary of the PAP, said to Aravot that in his opinion, the people are more interested in cooperation of the Armenian parties on the issues that are in our state’s interest and not on the ceremonial issues who joined or didn’t join whom. In response to a request for clarification whether the PAP cooperated with the ANC or not, Urikhanyan said: “We cooperate, if it is in the people’s interest.” He didn’t wish to talk about Hayotsyan’s remark that he didn’t know members of the PAP by sight.
Nelly GRIGORYAN
