YEREVAN. – The well-informed sources of Zhoghovurd daily conveyed very interesting details about the possible reasons for the polemics between Armenia’s PM Tigran Sargsyan and second President Robert Kocharyan, the daily reports.  

“Kocharyan told his close circles that he responded to Sargsyan for but one reason: the current authorities are distorting the reality, which is offensive.   

“Kocharyan said that, during his tenure, [the] construction [business] was at [its] peak [in Armenia]. In addition, he recalled that, at the end of his tenure, the poverty [rate in the country] was 27.6 percent, and the foreign debt, much lower: $1.4 billion.

“And [as per Kocharyan,] the incumbent authorities not only failed to keep that number, but they further aggravated the situation by making poverty reach 32.5 percent and the foreign debt, $4.5 billion.

“And, in this situation, criticizing Kocharyan severely offended the second President,” Zhoghovurd writes.