Armenia’s first president does not intend to follow the custom Moscow-Washington-Paris route

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Reports that Armenia’s first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who is running for presidency, plans to visit Moscow is a sketch from the theater of the absurd, Armenia’s former foreign minister, member of the former ruling party, the Armenian National Movement, Alexander Arzumanyan said announced at a news conference in Yerevan today.

A REGNUM correspondent quotes Arzumanyan as saying that the reports could have been taken seriously and officially, had it been released by Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s office. “But what some newspapers are doing now is a reality that only characterizes the situation in the country,” he said adding that supporters of the first president “learned” about the intention of the [president from newspapers. Arzumanyan declined assumptions that Ter-Petrosyan intended to follow the route of the presidential contender from the ruling Republican Party, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan – Moscow-Washington-Paris. “Coming forward as a presidential contender, Ter-Petrosyan posed as his task to establish a contact with the people, as it is the Armenian citizens to elect president,” he noted. “I do not know what routes are chosen by Serzh Sargsyan and with what aim, but we have a task to explain to the people and present our programs and win their votes at the presidential election,” he said.