{"id":82779,"date":"2011-04-06T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=82779"},"modified":"2011-04-06T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:29:00","slug":"how-dare-shahnazaryan-speak-of-bridges-now-says-dashnak-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/06\/how-dare-shahnazaryan-speak-of-bridges-now-says-dashnak-mp.html","title":{"rendered":"How Dare Shahnazaryan Speak of Bridges Now, Says Dashnak MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For weeks, Armenian National Congress (HAK) representatives were mocking Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian during his protest (hunger strike), whatever dirt they had they threw on him, whatever discreditable statement there was they said, and now they say don&#8217;t burn your bridges, said Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D) parliamentary faction leader Vahan Hovhannisyan, commenting on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/06\/hak-activist-predicts-heritage-partys-and-armenian-revolutionary-federations-future\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>earlier statement<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by HAK representative David Shahnazaryan and speaking at today&#8217;s discussion in the Civilitas Foundation series &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilitasfoundation.org\/cf\/events\/581-one-hundred-questions-and-answers.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>100 Hundred Questions, 100 Hundred Answers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/06\/hak-activist-predicts-heritage-partys-and-armenian-revolutionary-federations-future\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>previously reported<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Shahnazaryan had said that he considers the Heritage Party and the ARF-D as being in opposition to HAK, while at the same time, noting &#8220;it&#8217;s not worth burning all their bridges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ay, when David Shahnazaryan was the head of the KGB and I was sitting in the basement of that building, in prison, let him have thought about bridges then,&#8221; said Hovhannisyan, while not ruling out the possibility of cooperating with HAK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t rule out cooperation, but no [political] force that respects itself can cooperate around a leader \u2014 around a program, things to do, sure. But not who is going to be the nation&#8217;s papa or grandpa,&#8221; he said, referring to the endearing term often associated with HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrossian.<\/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>As previously reported, Shahnazaryan had said that he considers the Heritage Party and the ARF-D as being in opposition to HAK, while&#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":82755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14877,16268,11606,12651,12650,16270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82779"}],"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=82779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}