YEREVAN. - Speech of the President of Armenia at the 66th UN General Assembly session was good but it was a mere speech, the leader of ARFD parliamentary faction Vahan Hovhannisyan told a press conference on Thursday.

“Two immediate needs stem out of this speech. First – Armenian authorities must have a substantial backing within the country in order to pursue such a strong national policy. This can be achieved by means of major reforms and rejection of monopolistic economic system. Obviously living standards continue to deteriorate, irrespective of the published official figures. Do we believe that the authorities can build an honest and fair country? No, we no longer believe!” Hovhannisyan emphasized.

The MP argued that the second need is concurrency of foreign policy with the provisions pointed out in Presidents’ speech. According to him, Sargsyan should have withdrawn the signature from the Armenian-Turkish protocols.

“Do we believe this can be done? No, because we do nothing but watch what is going on in Turkey. In Armenia the situation is paralyzed, there is no movement,” said Hovhannisyan.