VAHAN HOVHANNISYAN’S STATEMENT

Dear compatriots,
The post-electoral atmosphere continues to remain heated.
The dead-end situation existing at present may be advantageous to anyone, but not to us. We are just obliged to relax the atmosphere; we are obliged to find a way out.
Confrontations, splitting and intolerance are not a way of solving problems. On the contrary, the delay in the current situation is intensifying the distrust, splitting our citizens apart. As a result, the country is becoming weaker.
What is the way out?
First, I welcome all the sincere appeals for tolerance and cooperation, voiced recently.
Second, we are just obliged to rule out all the possible conflicts. We must realize that those who hold contrary viewpoints constitute an element of the same people, and the political forces should have a supreme task not to allow internal splitting. Undesired developments may be prevented through negotiations only.
And I propose a negotiation agenda which may ease the tension, lead to consent and mark a new beginning of an in-depth process of democratization inside the country.
In my understanding, there are three priority issues:
First: developing unanimously a new electoral system that will rule out the possibility of any electoral wrongdoing and sharply increase the people’s self-confidence of forming a government at their own will. One of the forms is, for example, ensuring the complete freedom and independence of the electoral system.
Second: creating conditions for real diversity of opinions and freedom of speech in the country. For example, the first step may be setting up a National Committee of Television and Radio and forming the chairmanship of the Public Television by the unanimous consent of the political factions.
Third: creating conditions guaranteeing the Opposition's full involvement in the political system. In this respect, introducing relevant changes in the National Assembly's Regulations may be one of the several steps.
I want to underline that my party and I have concrete and detailed proposals with respect to the above-mentioned three issues, and we are ready to introduce them during the negotiations.
Dear Friends,
As a citizen, as a representative of a national party, I suggest that we focus on these issues and initiate talks with the involvement of the influential political factions, refraining from maximalism and confrontations that lead nowhere.

28 February, 2008

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