YEREVAN. - Secretary of oppositional Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD), MP Artyusha Shahbazyan refuted media reports that the party is holding talks with the Armenian authorities to ensure its representation in next Armenian parliament. 

“These rumors are nothing but absurd statements.  How can ARFD hold talks with the incumbent authorities, if we had run into controversy with them and left the ruling coalition? If ARFD cooperates with the authorities, it will spell its death after 2012-2013. It is absurd,” Shahbazyan said.

The MP noted that such rumors are aimed at discrediting the party on the eve of parliamentary elections.

According to Shahbazian, both pro-governmental and oppositional camps are spreading such rumors regularly.