{"id":157757,"date":"2012-02-01T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=157757"},"modified":"2012-02-01T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T06:20:53","slug":"heritage-party-and-free-democrats-wont-be-collaborating-with-vartan-oskanian-bhk-still-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/01\/heritage-party-and-free-democrats-wont-be-collaborating-with-vartan-oskanian-bhk-still-mum.html","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Party and Free Democrats Won&#8217;t be Collaborating with Vartan Oskanian. BHK Still Keeping Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosperous Armenia party (BHK) MP Naira Zohrabyan isn&#8217;t personally aware of discussions on cooperation between her party and former foreign minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am, Zohrabyan said she can&#8217;t say &#8220;whether we&#8217;ll see Oskanian on the BHK party list or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calls to BHK party leader Gagik Tsarukyan&#8217;s press spokesperson Khachik Galstyan on this matter went unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>As <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/31\/armenia%E2%80%99s-oskanian-signals-political-comeback-urges-free-fair-elections.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">previously reported<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, in a written statement circulated by his Civilitas Foundation think-tank, Oskanian hinted at the possibility of running for parliament on BHK&#8217;s party ticket. \u201cTalk about my involvement with the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) is not without basis. I have had such discussions with the Prosperous Armenia party as well as with other political forces,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, local media <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/27\/armenias-3-former-foreign-ministers-to-form-alliance.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reported<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> that Oskanian had had meetings with Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian and Free Democrats party representative Alexander Arzumanyan \u2014 both also Armenia&#8217;s former foreign ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking clarification, Epress.am spoke with representatives of these two parties, who both ruled out the possibility of collaborating with Oskanian in the parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to Free Democrats vice chair Anush Sedrakyan, it&#8217;s impossible for their party to collaborate with Oskanian. She mentioned that there haven&#8217;t been any preliminary discussions with Oskanian on the matter of collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s every man&#8217;s right to engage in politics and an expression of his free will. But there hasn&#8217;t been a discussion on including Oskanian on our [party] list. In addition, I think that Oskanian clearly implied that he&#8217;ll be in the BHK list,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan, also in conversation with Epress.am, likewise said there&#8217;s been no talks between Oskanian and their party in the question of comprising the parliamentary party list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oskanian never left politics. The non-governmental organization he leads [Civilitas Foundation] has always had a political agenda. It was very interesting for me that he very quickly changed his opinion on the administration&#8217;s foreign and domestic policies as soon as he was no longer a representative of the administration,&#8221; she 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>In a written statement circulated by his Civilitas Foundation think-tank, Oskanian hinted at the possibility of running for parliament on&#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":157718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25045,21753,29885,12075,14992,24852,15968,16621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157757"}],"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=157757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}