YEREVAN, MAY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. ARFD calls RA President Serzh Sargsyan for stopping "football diplomacy" carried on towards Turkey. ARFD Armenian Supreme Body representative Armen Rustamian stated at the May 27 concluding preelection rally. According to ARFD members, the process launched after Turkish President Abdullah Gul's visit to Yerevan "did not lead Armenians to anything good." "Today the danger is indeed serious, but Dashnaktsutiun cannot overcome it on its own," A. Rustamian said. According to him, ARFD needs a new vote of confidence, which it expects to receive in Yerevan Council of Elders elections. ARFD Bureau member Aghvan Vardanian, in his turn, stated that though the other day the RA Prime Minister called Armenia's citizens for spending their summer holidays in Armenia, large advertisement boards offering people to have a rest in Turkey in summer have appeared in Yerevan. "Has current Mayor seen these boards?," A. Vardanian asked adding that for sure there are no Armenian advertisement boards in Istanbul. Touching upon the home political situation, the ARFD Bureau member predicted that if radical opposition forces assume Yerevan government they will again clash with the central power, which will destabilize the situation in the country. While ARFD, in A. Vardanian's conviction, should receive its votes to have its unique place in case of new rearrangement of political forces. "No new political system can be formed without ARFD," he said.

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