Karen Karapetyan rejects meeting with  Nikol Pashinyan again

ArmInfo.Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan this time again  refused to negotiate with the leader of the opposition, lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan. Aram  Araratyan, press secretary of Karapetyan, wrote tthis at his  page in  Facebook.

According to the statement shared  by Araratian, the terms of the  negotiations put forward by Pashinyan are practically the same as  those he said about days earlier and which Karapetyan did not agree  with.  "Pashinyan insists on an open format of negotiations (in the  presence of the media), which shows that the goal of the meeting is  not to reach consensus, and this time Pashinyan insists exclusively  on his agenda of negotiations, not giving a chance to the opposite  side the only thing Pashinyan reconsidered in his position is that  this time he does not dictate the format of the talks, and,  nevertheless, Karapetyan's response to the negotiations in this  perspective Karapetyan recommends Pashinyan to accept the proposal of  RA President Armen Sargsyan and together with the parliamentary and  extra-parliamentary forces to start discussions on the country's exit  from the current situation, "the statement reads. 

Pashinyan  on the eve of the rally again invited Karapetyan to the  negotiations at the Marriott hotel at 12:00 in the presence of the  media. He said that the only topic of the talks is the peaceful  withdrawal of the Republican Party of Armenia from power.

It should be noted that Karapetyan refused Pashinyan for the first  time due to the fact that he personally single out the format and  agenda of the talks. Nevertheless, Pashinyan said at the rally  yesterday that I will either be Armenia's Prime Minister, or Armenia  will not have a Prime Minister.

Nevertheless, as ArmInfo reported earlier, the Republican Party  initially decided at the May 1 prime ministerial elections to come up  with its candidate, who will be Karen Karapetyan, that is, beforehand  having determined for himself the impossibility of negotiating with  Pashinyan on the agenda he had put forward.