During his April 28 rally the ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan stated that the opportunity of the dialog with the government is not fully worn out and stretched the “deadline of complete separation for another month” “To put it figuratively, the door for the dialogue, if not fully open, is at least half open. I have no doubts that it will be fully opened within one month, something which we will register at our next rally to be held on May 31…” stated Ter-Petrosyan during his rally by explaining it as a serious step forward on part of the government. Minutes before the speech of the leader of the ANC, the former prime minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan expressed a dramatically different opinion, by stating that the government is trying to pull them in a “swamp by engaging them in a dialog but the solution to that is change of government.” Yesterday during the conversation with our reporter Hrant Bagratyan first asked not to contradict his opinion with Ter-Petrosyan’s opinion. “I don’t exclude the dialog but it should be done publicly. In the political field it is impossible to make confidential solutions,” he said, “ANC established a forum for that. The forum can only work publicly with the government. Let the government openly state what compromises it is willing to take. ANC will discuss those with the people. In that regard, the non-public dialog will lead us to a swamp. By the way, I am sure that this dialog doesn’t exist as a whole. Those are just mediated references.” Nonetheless, Bagratyan doesn’t find it satisfactory what currently ANC brings up as steps or demands. “We don’t need any justification. We need a real action and we want to see in one or two months how Robert Kocharyan is being questioned by the police. We want to hear his confession on who gave the order to shoot. We assume that the order was released by Kocharyan,” he said referring to the recent statement of Serzh Sargsyan with the law-enforcing bodies on the new vigor in the investigation process. In this regard, at his April 28 rally Ter-Petrosyan said, “Sargsyan’s statement on full investigation of March 1 events during the April 20 working group meeting is even more than the promises of dozens of officials because the law-enforcers were directly ordered to objectively investigate.”
