19.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The political Secretary of the Socialistic Forces of Armenia Ashot Manucharian will take part in the rally which is to be hold today in the center of Yerevan. It is not excluded that Manucharian will continue making sensational statements voiced yesterday.
On October 18 press conference Manucharian stated that the Prime Minister of Armenia Vazgen Sarkisian and the Speaker of the Parliament Karen Demirchian, both killed by the terrorists on October 27, 1999, became the victims of the plan of territorial swap between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He also accused the President of Armenia Robert Kocharian that the concealed from the investigation the main version of the realization of the terrorist act of October 27 – V. Sarkisian’s and K. Demirchian’s disagreement with the so-called “Goble plan” of territorial swap between Armenia and Azerbaijan”, he said.
From 1991 to 1993 Ashot Manucharian took the posts of the Interior Minister of Armenia and the presidential advisor for National Security. He was the second powerful person in the state, the closest ally to the then president Levon Ter-Petrossian. In summer of 1993 he sign in his resignation because of disagreements with the foreign political course of Ter-Petrossian, stating about his intentions to start more seriously dealing with the Karabakh problem, therefore intending to consolidate some part of opposition round his person. Ter-Petrossian stated that the reason for resignation is the formation by Manucharian of “independent structure of power”. In 1996 Manucharian was nominated as the presidential candidate from Scientific-Industrial and Civil Union, but loose the elections. -0-
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