YEREVAN, DECEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. "As fate has willed it, the sword of Damocles constantly hangs above Armenia. However no one can stop the course we have adopted," Galust Sahakian, the Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), stated at the December 26 press conference touching upon the prospect of depriving the Armenian delegation of the vote in PACE. According to the RPA figure, the Armenian people being slaughtered by Muslim world representatives has renounced their values and chosen the European development way. Now, according to G. Sahakian, the Council of Europe should not be so not serious to push Armenia back from the European world and to impel it to the Muslim one. G. Sahakian added that some forces in the home political sphere, which many years ago were for brotherly relations with Azerbaijan, now "exert pressure" on European structures and do their best for sanctions to be used towards Armenia. G. Sahakian did not render it more clear which those forces are, but said that he does not consider them a normal opposition. According to his observation, today in the political sphere there is no proper opposition to conduct a dialogue and to cooperate with. "Certainly, it would be pleasant if only good words were said for us at all international structures, but it should not damage our national security," G. Sahakian said. He added that he considers those imprisoned on the March 1 case his friends and would like "a message on releasing them to be issued just tomorrow." However, according to RPA Vice-Chairman's observation, that issue should be solved on the legal plane, otherwise their release can endanger the country.

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