“Hraparak” portrays a reported clash between activists of the Republican (HHK) and Prosperous Armenia (BHK) parties as evidence of mounting political tensions in Armenia in the run-up to the May 31 mayoral elections in Yerevan. “The Republicans have decided to take power in the capital, while the BHK has decided to stop them,” says the paper. “A fight of life and death is expected. The most interesting thing is that this time the fight will be not between the authorities and the opposition but between the authorities and the authorities.”
“Regardless of which political force wins the upcoming elections, it will have to govern the city within the framework of the law,” writes “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun.” The paper dismisses government claims that an opposition victory in Yerevan would result in a permanent confrontation between the municipal and central governments. It says opposition control of the Yerevan municipality would simply make it harder for the authorities to continue to “plunder the people.”
Lragir.am comments on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Baku and statements made by him and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev. “Either Azerbaijan, or Turkey or Armenia are busy deceiving themselves,” says the online publication. “It is also possible that their statements do not contradict reality.” It suggests that a “roadmap” to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations announced by Ankara and Yerevan on April 22 does not exist at all and that the purpose of that announcement was to enable U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid using the word “genocide” in his April 24 statement.
Vahan Hovannisian, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), assures “Hayots Ashkhar” that international mediators’ existing peace proposals on Nagorno-Karabakh are more favorable to the Armenian side than the ones which they put forward in 1997 and which were advocated by then President Levon Ter-Petrosian. “Now even Aliev does not deny that there has to be a corridor between Karabakh and Armenia,” says Hovannisian. He also argues that the mediators now accept the applicability of the principle of self-determination to the Karabakh conflict. “These are indeed positive changes,” adds Hovannisian.
(Aghasi Yenokian)
“Regardless of which political force wins the upcoming elections, it will have to govern the city within the framework of the law,” writes “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun.” The paper dismisses government claims that an opposition victory in Yerevan would result in a permanent confrontation between the municipal and central governments. It says opposition control of the Yerevan municipality would simply make it harder for the authorities to continue to “plunder the people.”
Lragir.am comments on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Baku and statements made by him and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev. “Either Azerbaijan, or Turkey or Armenia are busy deceiving themselves,” says the online publication. “It is also possible that their statements do not contradict reality.” It suggests that a “roadmap” to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations announced by Ankara and Yerevan on April 22 does not exist at all and that the purpose of that announcement was to enable U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid using the word “genocide” in his April 24 statement.
Vahan Hovannisian, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), assures “Hayots Ashkhar” that international mediators’ existing peace proposals on Nagorno-Karabakh are more favorable to the Armenian side than the ones which they put forward in 1997 and which were advocated by then President Levon Ter-Petrosian. “Now even Aliev does not deny that there has to be a corridor between Karabakh and Armenia,” says Hovannisian. He also argues that the mediators now accept the applicability of the principle of self-determination to the Karabakh conflict. “These are indeed positive changes,” adds Hovannisian.
(Aghasi Yenokian)