YEREVAN. – According to well-informed sources, Armenia’s National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan was not the sole person who recently spoke with second President Robert Kocharyan, Hraparak daily reports.   

“While welcoming Hovik Abrahamyan at the airport [and from his official visit to the Czech Republic], NA Deputy Speaker [and ruling Republican Party (RPA) Spokesperson] Eduard Sharmazanov and RPA [NA] Faction leader Galust Sahakyan warmly approached a vehicle, which was coming toward them from the runway, thinking that it is the distinguished Abrahamyan [inside]. 

But the vehicle stopped, the doors opened, and a fairly young-looking Robert Kocharyan came out. He shook their hands in salutation, asked how they were. “We were going to salute [him likewise], what else would we have done? We weren’t going to say ‘we are waiting for Hovik,’ they justified themselves at the faction,” Hraparak writes.