Aram Karapetyan on “Robert Kocharyan-Serzh Sargsyan” Scenario

While commenting on the situation created around Civilitas Foundation the Chairman of the New Times Party mentioned to Lurer.com three key matters. The first circumstance, according to Aram Karapetyan is connected with American issues. “The second circumstance is connected with the inner political issues of Armenia. They are more focused on Vardan Oskanian to show that there might be the worst political punishments for him. When Mr. Oskanian was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and similar approaches were applied against us, he wasn’t seeing all that and it’s too bad that he wouldn’t notice all that back then. Now the same methods are applied against him. The NSS attacked him in the worst manner,” mentioned the NTP Chair. When speaking of the third circumstance Karapetyan noted that it includes a very important scenario prepared for Serzh Sargsyan. “Serzh Sargsyan wishes to raise the reputation of Vardan Oskanian and Robert Kocharyan. In Armenia, whenever repressive methods are applied and when the NSS investigates a politician, a quick impression is formed that the person is a real opposition and that he’s being persecuted for that. I think Serzh Sargsyan wishes to even more highlight the opposition role of Vardan Oskanian or Robert Kocharyan in the future having a plan to use them as his opponents during the upcoming elections and securing his victory. In the case of Robert Kocharyan it’s much less plausible. We may even say that it’s almost impossible,” mentioned Karapetyan and added that this is a really meaningless case because it’s not known whether he really laundered money or evaded taxes.