ArmInfo. The ruling Republican Party of Armenia does not wish to participate in Armenian National Congress promotion, answering the statements and speeches of its leader and First President of Armenia Levon Ter Petrosyan. This was stated by Armen Ashotyan, the Vice Chairman of RPA, commenting Levon Ter Petrosyan's speech at ANC congress. According to Ashotyan, it is obvious, that ANC has lost its power as a political unit. " Currently the only source of its energy is Levon Ter Petrosyan and his speech. He applied a proper political technology to attract an attention to ANC and to capsulate the agenda, but we don't want to participate in this process," rebublican mentioned. At the same time he stated that Serzh Sargsyan was never left alone,as it was stated by the First President at ANC congress.
Despite Ashotyan did not want to participate in ANC promotion, he couldn't hold back of saying that ter petrisyan's speech in respect to step by step settlement of Karabakh conflict has two disputable sides: " First of all, is it correct to speak about that today, when negotiations are held on negotiations resuming? And the second, is it correct from political point of view, when the opposition claims a softer position in respect to foreign relations, that authorities do?"he noted.
To remind, the red line of Ter-Petrosyan's speech at the Congress was the necessity of territorial abatements within the Karabakh conflict settlement. According to Ter-Petrosyan, Armenia will face more complicated situation if refuses. He also called Aliev an expedient leader, and blamed Armenian authorities for not stating clearly the necessity of abatements. Ter-Petrosyan criticized also the Army- Nation Concept, considering it ineffective for Armenia.