Epress.am News from Armenia
“We don’t yet have an official decision, decree or order about the delegation formed by the authorities for dialogue; we are currently refraining from [making] any comments,” Armenian National Congress (HAK) press spokesperson Arman Musinyan told Epress.am in response to a request to comment on a Jul. 9 statement by RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s press spokesperson Armen Arzumanyan on creating a delegation to dialogue with HAK.
On Jul, 9, Arzumanyan, in an interview with local news site News.am, said, “If you recall, in his Jun. 17 address, the president clearly stated that if instead of negotiating on one particular issue, the Armenian National Congress is truly prepared to continue dialogue on the path to our country’s development, on a wide range of important foreign and domestic policies and wishes to realize this only through specially appointed people, then the representatives of the [ruling] coalition parties can sit around the discussion table. In his speech on Jun. 30, [HAK leader] Levon Ter-Petrossian, in fact, responded positively to this proposal, saying, ‘Dialogue, yes, but not around secondary, but the main issues’.
“Welcoming this response, the [ruling] coalition parties have established a respective working group that includes two representatives from each party [there are 3 parties in the ruling coalition]. In the coming days, the list of group members will be made public and it will be possible to organize the first working discussion in the coming 10 days.”