YEREVAN -- Two opposition leaders today criticized opposition leader and former President Levon Ter-Petrossian, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.
Armen Martirosian, who chairs the governing board of Zharangutiun, one of the two opposition parties in parliament, said Ter-Petrossian shares with his successors Robert Kocharian and incumbent President Serzh Sarkisian responsibility for the political and economic problems Armenia currently faces.
Ter-Petrossian currently heads the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), an umbrella organization that unites some two dozen opposition parties and groups.
A second top Zharangutiun member, Stepan Safarian, pointed out that his party and Ter-Petrossian's HAK hold diverging views on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations and the optimum approach to resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Safarian also deplored the HAK's rejection of Zharangutiun's recent call for a round-table discussion at which all opposition parties would be represented.
Zharangutiun was founded in late 2002 by Raffi Hovannisian, a U.S.-born Armenian who served from 1991-1992 as Armenian foreign minister during Ter-Petrossian's first presidential term.
Zharangutiun backed Ter-Petrossian's unsuccessful presidential bid in February 2008. But the party declined to join the HAK when it was founded later that year.
Armen Martirosian, who chairs the governing board of Zharangutiun, one of the two opposition parties in parliament, said Ter-Petrossian shares with his successors Robert Kocharian and incumbent President Serzh Sarkisian responsibility for the political and economic problems Armenia currently faces.
Ter-Petrossian currently heads the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), an umbrella organization that unites some two dozen opposition parties and groups.
A second top Zharangutiun member, Stepan Safarian, pointed out that his party and Ter-Petrossian's HAK hold diverging views on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations and the optimum approach to resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Safarian also deplored the HAK's rejection of Zharangutiun's recent call for a round-table discussion at which all opposition parties would be represented.
Zharangutiun was founded in late 2002 by Raffi Hovannisian, a U.S.-born Armenian who served from 1991-1992 as Armenian foreign minister during Ter-Petrossian's first presidential term.
Zharangutiun backed Ter-Petrossian's unsuccessful presidential bid in February 2008. But the party declined to join the HAK when it was founded later that year.