Aleksandr Arzumanian

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  Last week, the local court in Yerevan allowed authorities to extend the detention of two major opposition leaders -- former Foreign Minister Aleksandr Arzumanian and Ararat Zurabian, the chairman of the Armenian Pan-National Movement -- for two months.

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  The latest detainees are Aleksandr Arzumanian, a former foreignminister and Ter-Petrosian's election campaign manager, and AraratZurabian, chairman of the former ruling Armenian Pan-National Movement(HHSh).
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  Arzumanian's and Zurabian's detention raised to at least 86 the number

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  Aleksandr Arzumanian, who had served as foreign minister in the Ter-Petrosian administration, argued that he has yet to complete his consultations with various political groups and nationwide meetings with supporters.The 62-year-old ex-president visited the eastern Gegharkunik region over the weekend and is due in the southeastern Syunik province later this week.
  
  "His concern is to change this situation," Arzumanian told RFE/RL."As he said, we need a single [opposition presidential] candidate to be able to confront this regime."
  
  Arzumanian also ruled out the possibility of Ter-Petrosian meeting Kocharian or Sarkisian.

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  Former Armenian Foreign Minister Aleksandr Arzumanian says the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement proposed by international mediators is "unacceptable" for the Armenian side, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Former Armenian Minister Calls Proposed Karabakh Deal Unacceptable/1788154.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Former Armenian Minister Calls Proposed Karabakh Deal Unacceptable/1788154.html

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  Authorities on May 8 arrested former Foreign Minister and current opposition activist Aleksandr Arzumanian for alleged money laundering.

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  Opposition figures like Artur Baghdasarian and former Armenian Foreign Minister Aleksandr Arzumanian have in recent weeks been attacked for alleged treason or arrested on dubious charges.

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  "Hraparak" asks former foreign minister Aleksandr Arzumanian whether it is possible that some document has already been signed in the Armenian-Azerbaijani talks over Nagorno-Karabakh, considering the recent disclosure of the Madrid principles. Arzumanian answers: "There have been many such cases in history.

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  One of them is an apparent copy of a hitherto unknown court ruling that allowed the National Security Service (NSS) to not only wiretap phone conversations of Ter-Petrosian's election campaign chief, Aleksandr Arzumanian, but to bug his offices and apartment and to place him under a round-the-clock surveillance.
  
  According to that document, the Yerevan court ruled on February 19, the election day, that the former Armenian branch of the Soviet KGB has "sufficient grounds" to suspect that Arzumanian is intent on "destabilizing" the political situation in order to "effect government change by unconstitutional means."Arzumanian was arrested in March and remains in custody on controversial coup charges which he strongly denies.
  
  "On February 19, it was still not known who will win [the election,]" Ter-Petrosian said, commenting on the "illegal" ruling."Therefore, a question arises.Why would Aleksandr Arzumanian attempt to change the government by unconstitutional means on that day?"

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  Former foreign minister Aleksandr Arzumanian (file photo)
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  September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Following his recent release from prison, former Armenian foreign minister and opposition figure Aleksandr Arzumanian today said that the charges filed against him are "ludicrous."
  
  Arzumanian was released on September 6 after spending four months in prison on charges of money laundering and illegally receiving finances from abroad.
  
  "Until Friday, I was a political prisoner; now I am a politically persecuted person," Arzumanian said."That ludicrous, fabricated charge has not been dropped, the political order is still there, and nobody has apologized for the four months I spent" in jail.
  
  Armenian authorities have accused Arzumanian of illegally receiving large sums of money from a fugitive Russian businessman of Armenian descent.
  
  Armenian law-enforcement authorities say the charges have not been dropped, and that Arzumanian may still stand trial.
  
  Arzumanian's release came as a surprise to many, as one week earlier a Yerevan court had agreed to extend his arrest for another two months.
  
  But Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian said he personally ordered the release, as he did not think there were sufficient reasons for keeping him in jail.
  
  Arzumanian served as Armenia's foreign minister between 1996-1998, and is seen as one of the most loyal associates of former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

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  Aleksandr Arzumanian, former Armenian FM, speaking at a press conference, Yerevan, 09July, 2009
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  Aleksandr Arzumanian, Armenia's foreign minister in 1996-98, was among several dozen loyalists of former president and current opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian released from jail under the amnesty bill initiated by President Serzh Sarkisian and approved by the Armenian parliament on June 19.
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  Arzumanian and other defendants in the notorious 'Case of Seven' have vehemently denied the charges and claimed they have been prosecuted for their political views.
  
  "During the past year and a half the authorities of Armenia have had only one issue on their foreign policy agenda - to avoid international sanctions," Arzumanian said at a press conference on Thursday. "All other major issues have been discussed in this context."
  
  "This is a disgraceful situation," he added.
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  A massacre took place and the efforts of the authorities in the past year and a half have been aimed at providing a cover-up and placing responsibility on certain people," said Arzumanian, underlining that the decision to declare amnesty was the result of pressure from international structures rather than the authorities' 'goodwill'.
  
  At the press conference, Armenia's former foreign minister also voiced concerns over the recent developments in the Armenian-Azerbaijani talks over the Karabakh conflict settlement.
  
  In particular, Arzumanian criticized the Armenian authorities for supplanting Karabakh as a party to the negotiations and, furthermore, "ceasing to be a negotiating party" themselves.
  
  "The impression is that there is no Armenian party to the negotiations as such. The [OSCE Minsk Group] cochairmen decide what the solution should be, Azerbaijan voices this solution and Armenia quietly waits for the international community to come to agreement whether to foist this solution on us or not, or else for Azerbaijan to attempt to foist this solution on us at the point of the bayonet," charged Arzumanian.

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