YEREVAN. – Visit by the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader Gagik Tsarukyan will not impact PAP’s statement on participation in the upcoming presidential elections, former FM and PAP member Vartan Oskanian told Radio Liberty.

Asked how the PAP’s European meetings will influence the party’s disposition on part the next presidential elections, Oskanian said that he would not have linked the visit to the presidential elections. PAP anyway will release a statement in Yerevan, while the visit cannot change the essence of the statement.

According to Oskanian, the party has better to have its own candidate, leader of the party.

“The decision will be made in coming days,” he emphasized.