YEREVAN (Noyan Tapan). The Council of the "Center" Territorial Organization of the Armenian National Movement made a decision on Friday expel MP and former vice-speaker of the National Assembly Ara Sahakian from the ANM. An excerpt of the minutes of the meeting signed by the chairman of the Council of the "Center" Territorial Organization of the ANM–Ararat Zourabian–runs as follows:
"In view of the active involvement in the establishment of superior sections–for long efforts to bring power bodies out of the party control and thereby depriving and discouraging the rank and file–in view of the faulty conduct – the placement of private interests above party and state interests–as well as permanent evasion from his obligations and for actions that contradict the ideological principles of the ANM–the Council of the "Center" Territorial Organization of the ANM unanimously decided to expel Ara Sahakian from the party".