The
information about the meeting of Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan is an
absolute lie, Viktor Soghomonyan, Spokesman for the second president of Armenia
Robert Kocharyan's Office, has told ArmInfo's correspondent.
"I cannot say what for the newspapers publish
such materials. But the presidents did not meet, consequently, neither did they
discuss any candidacy", says Soghomonyan.
To recall, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time) daily
said that about a month ago the second and the third presidents of Armenia,
Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, held a private meeting. The spotlight of
the meeting was the presidential election of 2018,
The newspaper said during the meeting Sargsyan told
Kocharyan that in 2018 Seyran Ohanyan, Defense Minister of Armenia, will run
for president from the Republican Party of Armenia in 2018 no matter whether
the constitutional reforms on the republic's transition to parliamentary regime
are completed or not. According to the source, Kocharyan replied that Ohanyan's
candidacy is actually acceptable to him. At the same time, Kocharyan failed to
promise that he himself will not run for president in 2018. The thing is that
Kocharyan is going to run for president in 2018 if his candidacy is supported
by the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), Haykakan Zhamanak said. "But if the
PAP advances its leader Gagik Tsarukyan's nominee, Kocharyan will support Ohanyan",
said the newspaper.