YEREVAN. - The shortcoming of all three Armenian presidents throughout the 20 years of independence is that they failed to build democracy in Armenia, said the leader of Union for National Self-Determination Paruyr Hayrikyan to a press conference on Tuesday.

‘‘Our efforts to introduce multi-party system under Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s administration came to naught, however it is the first President who currently speaks about multi-party system,’’ said Hayrikyan.

He argued that Robert Kocharyan’s early days in office were successful until he made the Constitutional amendments and used them for his own benefit. Kocharyan came down of constitutional way of establishing a democracy under parliament’s pressure.

Summarizing the activities of the three Armenian presidents – Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan – Hayrikyan stressed that all of them lack acknowledgement of system of national values.