Armenian parliament opposition and ruling majority divided over their assessments of president Serzh Sargsyan’s two-year term in office
10.04.2010,
03:24
Armenian parliament members from the opposition and the ruling majority were divided today in their assessments of the first two years of president Serzh Sargsyan’s rule. President Serzh Sargsyan was inaugurated two years ago on April 9.
YEREVAN, April 9. /ARKA/. Armenian parliament members from the opposition and the ruling majority were divided today in their assessments of the first two years of president Serzh Sargsyan’s rule. President Serzh Sargsyan was inaugurated two years ago on April 9.
Stepan Safarian, head of the parliamentary faction of the Zharangutyun (Heritage) party, said Sargsyan’s two-year presidency brought no positive changes. “I did not pin hopes on his presidency, never supported him and therefore I am not frustrated by his failure to fulfill his promises,’ he said.
Another member of the faction, Armen Martirosian, said nothing was done to reform the country’s judicial system, no economic reforms were implemented and the authorities failed also to find and punish the people responsible for 2008 March 1-2 bloody events in Yerevan.
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Artsvik Minasian from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutyun, said two years of Sargsyan’s presidency have only raised tension in the country’s foreign policy leading to a division between Armenia proper and its vast Diaspora because of the process he initiated in a bid to improve relations with Turkey.
However, Heghine Bisharian from the Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) party, a member of the ruling coalition, disagreed with these assessments arguing that Sargsyan succeeded in mitigating domestic political tension and achieved serious progress in foreign policy.
Naira Zohrabian from another coalition member party, Prosperous Armenia ,underlined the significance of the Armenian-Turkish process and progress in the efforts to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Galust Sahakian, a deputy chairman of Serzh Sargsyan’s Republican Party, said Sargsyan made the international community look deeper into Armenian problems and realize them. -0-
Stepan Safarian, head of the parliamentary faction of the Zharangutyun (Heritage) party, said Sargsyan’s two-year presidency brought no positive changes. “I did not pin hopes on his presidency, never supported him and therefore I am not frustrated by his failure to fulfill his promises,’ he said.
Another member of the faction, Armen Martirosian, said nothing was done to reform the country’s judicial system, no economic reforms were implemented and the authorities failed also to find and punish the people responsible for 2008 March 1-2 bloody events in Yerevan.
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Artsvik Minasian from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutyun, said two years of Sargsyan’s presidency have only raised tension in the country’s foreign policy leading to a division between Armenia proper and its vast Diaspora because of the process he initiated in a bid to improve relations with Turkey.
However, Heghine Bisharian from the Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) party, a member of the ruling coalition, disagreed with these assessments arguing that Sargsyan succeeded in mitigating domestic political tension and achieved serious progress in foreign policy.
Naira Zohrabian from another coalition member party, Prosperous Armenia ,underlined the significance of the Armenian-Turkish process and progress in the efforts to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Galust Sahakian, a deputy chairman of Serzh Sargsyan’s Republican Party, said Sargsyan made the international community look deeper into Armenian problems and realize them. -0-
