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Title: Armenia - Ter-Petrossian supporters demonstration PART 1 View count: 295 Rating: 2.33 (3 ratings) Description: Recorded by me on the 5th July - 08. Levon Ter-Petrossian was the President of Armenia (Pan-Armenian National Movement) from 1991 to 1998. Due to some economic and political problems, he resigned on February 3, 1998 and was succeeded by Robert Kocharyan. Since his resignation, Ter-Petrossian rarely appeared in public and avoided contact with the media, although there were speculations that he would run for the office of president of Armenia in the general election in February 2003. He instead devoted his time to scientific research. In 2005-2007 Ter-Petrossian published two volumes of his "The Crusaders and Armenians" historio-political research. On September 21, 2007, Ter-Petrossian gave his first public speech in nearly ten years at an event in Yerevan marking the 16th anniversary of Armenia's declaration of independence. In this speech he was strongly critical of Kocharyan. Subsequently, Ter-Petrossian officially announced his candidacy in the 2008 presidential election in a speech in Yerevan on 26 October 2007. He accused Kocharyan's government of massive corruption, involving the theft of "at least three to four billion dollars" over the previous five years. He was critical of the government's claims of strong economic growth and argued that Kocharyan and his Prime Minister, Serge Sargsyan, had come to accept a solution to the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh that was effectively the same solution that he had proposed ten years earlier. Tags: anti, armenia, demonstration, hayastan, regime, republic, square, supporters, ter-petrossian, Author: gurgin |
