Armenian President’s Inaugural Visit to the U.S.: Rumblings of Discontent Linger…

By Tony Halpin The celebrations and applause for Levon Ter-Petrosyan at first drowned the rumblings of discontent. Largely unknown to the thousands of ordinary people who turned out to see Armenia’s new democratic leader, bitter disputes were breaking out over the conduct and achievements of the President’s first visit to the United States. On the
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Cover story: A new era; Democratically-elected Leaders of the Armenian Government Assume Office and Take on the Challenge of Finding Solutions for Armenia’s Innumerable Problems

By Vartan Oskanian Recently, history was made in Armenia. Not because the first non-Communist president was elected per se, but because he was elected democratically by a popularly chosen parliament. Levon Ter-Petrosyan, 45, who has repatriated to Armenia from Aleppo, Syria in 1946 at the age of one, was elected by the 220-member Armenian Parliament,
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