TER-PEROSYAN TRIES TO WIN TIME

In an attempt to make the opposition join the Armenian Pan-National Movement

L. Ter-Petrosyan’s proponents, who were looking forward to his speech in the 2nd congress of the “Pan-National Movement”, are obviously disappointed.
The speech-lecture that lasted an hour and a half came to show that L. Ter-Petrosyan’s task to the revolutionaries is much more modest, while its political trend is contradictory.
After criticizing the authorities for the March 1 events and making attempts of self-justification, Ter-Petrosyan was satisfied with the accusations addressed to the West and some contradictory assessments regarding the country’s internal situation. That is, “Authorities, you should comply with the requirements of the PACE Resolution, and we will continue insisting that you are not legitimate. We will be in favor of any political pressure against the Armenian authorities, but we will fight economic pressure. And in case Azerbaijan allows any encroachment upon Karabakh, we will unanimously settle down to the protection of our motherland.”
However, muddled up in his own questions, the ex-President never explained the potential impact of the Western pressure upon the Karabakh peace process.
Thereafter, the proponents of the ex-President were anticipating him to clarify his future political steps, but that never happened. It turned out that Ter-Petrosyan had nothing to say in that connection, at least at the moment of making his speech, and he continued insisting on his unilateral conditions for initiating a dialogue.
The following question comes up: what was the purpose of convening the congress? Judging by all, Ter-Petrosyan’s speech was directed at the goal of maintaining the political position he had gained during the electoral campaign. In this regard, we can understand Ter-Petrosyan’s concerns since it is impossible to maintain so many political alliances formed around one personality in the pre-election period. Clearly, controversies and disruptions inside such artificial unions become inevitable.
Moreover, maintaining the alliance is a much more difficult task than changing its image, as the latter always contains an anticipation of new and interesting solutions. This may account for the new idea proposed by Ter-Petrosyan, i.e. the initiative of setting up an “Armenian National Congress” which is supposed to “unite” but never assimilate different political factions that supported the ex-President’s candidacy during the recent presidential elections. The Political Council and the Executive Body supporting Ter-Petrosyan are supposed to fit themselves into a new political “framework” before further clarifications.
Trying to find a justification for the “Armenian National Congress”, Ter-Petrosyan mentioned in his speech that they had taken into consideration “both the glorious traditions of national democratic movements and the multi-layer ideological and social representation”. That’s to say, the imitation of the international experience pursues the goal of protecting the pro-Ter-Petrosyan camp from ideological disagreements and conflicts of interests which become inevitable in the post-electoral period.
Of course, the proposal of setting up a “National Congress” did have its precedent in the world history, but only in the form of the structures characteristic of the era of national-liberation movements. “The Indian National Congress”, for instance, was one of them. The latter was characterized by its tactics of struggling against the English colonists through peaceful, bloodless methods, as well as the aspiration of protecting the national values.
But what does the experience of India and other countries have to do with the political goals of Ter-Petrosyan and his proponents who have found themselves in uncertainty after the unsuccessful attempts of staging a “colored revolution”? It may seem to some people that by doing this, the participants of the March 1 events wanted to imitate the peaceful and democratic methods adopted by the Indian leaders. However, we should keep in mind that the objectives of Ter-Petrosyan, i.e. the “creation of a free, democratic and prosperous state governed by rule of law”, is not absolutely the task of a national liberation movement which is based upon nationality, language and other fundamental values.
We believe the given name deriving from the rich experience of the national-liberation movements of India and other countries has been chosen just as some attractive framework that may lead to the solution of the problem of winning time and making the forces that supported Ter-Petrosyan’s candidacy during the elections join the Armenian Pan-National Movement. This will help them to finally clear themselves of the label of “flawed activists”.
As to the other parties which supported them, they will simply make “The Armenian National Congress” a springboard for quitting the political arena by disguising their own weakness and final depersonalization.
ARMEN TSATOURYAN

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A concerned armenian wrote:
What a stupid article. There were no points made. Just a blabber to bad mouth ter-petrosyan.
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MIHRAN wrote:
- A concerned armenian
  What a stupid article. There were no points made. Just a blabber to bad mouth ter-petrosyan.
concerned armenian
It's obvious You don't like the essence of this article....points made are clear... they are at the introduction level of the first paragraph.
It seems that anything Hayots Ashkhar writes is not to your liking....
Ellections are over....time is to work for the good of our country...
Mihran

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