YEREVAN. – “First and foremost, it is the West which is not interested in the establishment of strong and true democratic institutions in our country [Armenia]. In reality, the West is not developing democratic institutions in Armenia, but rather it uses that tool to serve its political interests in the region. Let’s not forget the efforts the very same USA exerted to disunite the [opposition bloc, Armenian National Congress] ANC,” Armenian National Assembly’s ANC Faction MP [and Social-Democratic Hnchakyan Party (SDHP) Chairwoman] Lyudmila Sargsyan told 168 Zham daily. 

“She added: ‘The formula is very simple: The West tolerates and even backs this [ruling] regime [in Armenia] because they have enormous secret and provoking information on the influential members of the regime, and this enables them to extort the decisions they want in matters relating to Armenian-Turkish relations, or, by way of the international corporations they finance and contrary to Armenia’s national interests, to take possession of our country’s natural resources,’” 168 Zham writes.