MAY 1 IN YEREVAN: TER-PETROSYAN ADDRESSES ECONOMY, FOREIGN POLICY, MAYORAL ELECTIONS AT LABOR DAY RALLY
The Armenian opposition on Friday rallied thousands of its supporters for the second time this year to address concerns ranging from the social-economic situation in the country to the current Armenian-Turkish relations and the upcoming mayoral elections in the capital. Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan also spoke about ‘political prisoners’ and the ‘Case of 7’ as he addressed a crowd near Matenadaran, an ancient manuscripts depositary in downtown Yerevan that became a venue for Armenian National Congress (ANC) gatherings ever since the violent breakup of the post-election opposition protests in a nearby Liberty Square on March 1, 2008. Ter-Petrosyan called the rally participants’ attention to the fact that the population’s social situation worsened soon after the depreciation of the Armenian dram in early March. “The depreciation of the Armenian dram and consequently the inflation caused a 30 percent fall in the living standards of the population. And a 6.1 percent fall was registered in our economy,” said Ter-Petrosyan, predicting a further depreciation of the national currency in the next one month. In this case, the ANC considers the creation of trade unions to be important, and it says it is ready to support their people greatly. As Ter-Petrosyan estimates, the ‘Case of 7’ was a ‘juridical illiteracy,’ since it could not first separate those seven people from the rest, and make them guilty, and later they decided to divide it into separate cases. He predicts that the case will eventually collapse at the European Court. Levon Ter-Petrosyan reminded that the ANC knows who the real four organizers of the March 1, 2008 events are and through whom 950 stooges provoke the disorder. However, he stated that they are not planning to give their names now, since it is not the proper time for that. While analyzing the Armenian-Turkish relations the first president of Armenia stated that they greatly evaluate all the positive steps made by the Armenian authorities. Asking to pay attention to the word ‘positive,’ he said he considered one of the four points of the ‘roadmap’ [to normalizing bilateral relations signed by Armenia and Turkey on April 22] to be worrisome. “Our only objection refers to the creation of a commission of Armenian and Turkish historians for studying the Armenian Genocide, because it means nothing else than denial of the Armenian Genocide,” said Ter-Petrosyan. He concluded that within the framework of the recently signed ‘roadmap’ the current authorities, headed by [President] Serzh Sargsyan and [Foreign Minister] Edward Nalbandyan, “sold the Genocide.” Ter-Petrosyan believes that they will sell Karabakh next, and as a result Sargsyan will become the first Armenia president “to win the Nobel Prize.” Referring to the May 31 mayoral election in Yerevan, Ter-Petrosyan stated that they did not intend to campaign during the Friday rally, since electioneering officially started the next day, May 2. Ter-Petrosyan brushed aside the accusation of the pro-government press that the ANC politicizes the mayoral race, adding that they decided to participate in the elections because they did not want the sad experience of the parliamentary elections 2007 to be repeated, when the Republican Party achieved a landslide victory without any serious competition from other political parties. The ANC said they would hold rallies in different districts of Yerevan beginning from May 2, and later planned another nationwide rally near Matenadaran on May 15.
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