Larisa Alaverdyan is outraged that there is a limit beyond which the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan should not have exceeded
On the October 24 parliamentary trio rally, the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced, “The opposition’s opposition is a friend to Serzh Sargsyan.”
With this statement, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, basically, ruled out the role of the third force in the internal political arena, by observing the problems in “black” and “white” dimensions. Many social and political figures criticize the activities of the parliamentary trio, others if not criticizing, do not have great expectations from this movement. The first Ombudsman of Armenia, also Executive Director of “Against Legal Arbitrariness” NGO Larisa Alaverdyan, in the conversation with “Aravot”, assured that “she does not have the expectations from the fight of the parliamentary trio, for which thousands of people are gathered in the Freedom square.”
On another occasion, Mrs. Alaverdyan did not rule out the possibility that the parliamentary trio is paving a way for the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan. We inquired from Mrs. Alaverdyan whether by opposing the parliamentary trio as Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced, he considers himself a friend to Serzh Sargsyan. Larisa Alaverdyan replied, “To tell the truth, after Levon Ter-Petrosyan jokes I refuses to comment on any statement made by the first president. There is a limit beyond which the first our presidents should not exceed.” Note that the joke about Sochi and Karabakh was from the series of jokes voiced at the October 24 rally by Levon Ter-Petrosyan. In the conversation with us, Larisa Alaverdyan was outraged and said, “it was unacceptable, eventually, sacredness should be preserved,” later on, she noted that the joke was widely circulated in the Azerbaijani press. Whether Mrs. Alaverdyan is disappointed about all of this, she replied, “What are you saying?” and continued, “There is a country, and truly, there are problems, and there is also the power and potential of people who should change all of this to the positive. Moreover, I have said that this movement at least solves one problem: to keep people awake, and in the end, it is a platform where people are able to express their protest in show of the government. I was neither an opposition to this opposition to take these expressions on me, nor I accept this expression in black and white dimensions.”
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Mrs. Alaverdyan believes that the government should also be sensitive to such matters, because people do not come to the square just like that. At the same time, the first Ombudsman of Armenia ensures that the problems of those standing on the platform and below the platform are different. To our question of whether in fact the people’s rights are violated, Alaverdyan replied, “Unfortunately, the politics does not coincide with purely moral issues and ideals. In every country, the achievements were made due to human conflict of interest; at least, every political force has pursued its own interests, because this is the field where the people are able to achieve solution of the problems step-by-step, from time to time.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
