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PRESIDENT KOCHARYAN TAKEN HARD-LINE STANCE

Politics

"If the opposition tries to attract public attention by clogging the capital’s roads, the police will do what ought to do", President Kocharyan said in his interview with Russia’s Izvestia newspaper .

It is the forth time Kocharyan has said in his interviews with Russian news agencies the opposition movement’s recent splash had been prompted by Georgian velvet revolution.

Our reality can’t be compared with Georgian, he said.

Kocharyan hinted that condemnation statements of international structures are encouraging political extremists.

Answering to Izvestia newspaper’s correspondent if he finds possible some compromise with the opposition, Kocharyan ruled out any concession from his side and urged opposition MPs to return to parliament and work.

Asked does he intend to make some changes in his policy, for example, to launch a large-scale anticorruption campaign, as Georgian president does, Kocharyan said ”no, we have intention to intensify our efforts to eliminate poverty”.