YEREVAN. – The dialogue between oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) and authorities was in an ideal stage, former member of the Karabakh committee Ashot Manucharyan told at a press conference on Monday. 

“The dialogue was stopped. The ANC has no time or opportunities. It is either to head national uprising or to leave the politics. Apparently it will choose the first, despite many supporters lost belief in ANC. No matter in case, ANC starts national uprising again many people will gather and even those who lost belief will again join the ANC,” Manucharyan said. 

In response to the question that U.S. was the initiator of the dialogue between ANC and authorities, Manucharyan stated that Russia was the one to stop the dialogue. It is based on the fact that there is an implicit agreement between the U.S. and Russia. According to it, Russia still leads post Soviet Union states. Russia took the start of the dialogue as infringement of its rights and diminution of its influence. Thus, it insisted on stopping it.

The expert believes that the demand for the ANC activist Tigran Arakelyan to change the measure of restraint could not have served to suspend the dialogue. Actually negotiations were run on how to overcome the crisis. ANC demands snap elections and reestablishment of the authority, which will lead to a new political situation. Armenian authorities do not agree to change anything, reminds politician.