{"id":131273,"date":"2011-09-30T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T09:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=131273"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T09:46:39","slug":"robert-kocharian-describes-what-would-force-him-to-return-to-active-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/30\/robert-kocharian-describes-what-would-force-him-to-return-to-active-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kocharian Describes What Would Force Him to Return to Active Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president of Armenia Robert Kocharian, in an <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamax.am\/en\/news\/politics\/2664\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">interview<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> with Mediamax news agency, said that he doesn\u2019t rule out the possibility returning to &#8220;big politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This he said in response to Mediamax\u2019s request to comment on the fact that the topic of his returning to active politics has become one of the main subjects of Armenia&#8217;s political scene, and the fact that Vladimir Putin is going to run in the presidential elections in Russia in 2012 became a topic of discussion and debate about the impact this could have on political processes in Armenia and on political perspectives of the second president in particular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am amazed that my possible return is linked to political processes in Russia \u2014\u00a0and this happens immediately after the celebration of the 21st anniversary of Armenia\u2019s independence? I am sure that political processes will mature here, in Armenia, and not be directly projected from outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t rule out the possibility of my returning to big politics. However, only three major factors may force me to return and not the events going on in \u2014 though very close to and important for Armenia, but nevertheless \u2014 another country. These three factors are:<\/p>\n<p>1. the absence of a tangible and stable improvement in the welfare of the people and the country&#8217;s economy, and consequently the growth of hopeless moods and emigration;<\/p>\n<p>2. the demand for my return to big politics by various strata of the society; and<\/p>\n<p>3. my inner belief that I can radically improve the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The ways that I may return to active politics may vary given these three factors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All other circumstances include some nuances and increase the political resource but are not fundamental factors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t rule out the possibility of my returning to big politics. However, only three major factors may force me to return and not the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,17366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}