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On the International Day for Protection of Children celebrated on June 1, Homeland Party Chairman Artur Vanetsyan, the leader of the I Have the Honor bloc running in the upcoming snap parliamentary elections, visited Charentsavan community of Armenia’s Kotayk Province.

In Charentsavan City Park, he congratulated the children and extended them his best wishes.

The Homeland Party leader also answered a question of one of the journalists about whether he was going to debate caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

“What debate should I possibly have with the capitulator?” Vanetsyan said.

Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan also turned down Pashinyan’s proposal for a debate on Tuesday.

The spokesman of Ter-Petrosyan’s Armenian National Congress party, Arman Musinyan, said in a Facebook post that the former president has nothing to talk about with the “nation-destroying scourge.”

Earlier on Monday, second President Robert Kocharyan also rejected such an offer through the official representative of his Armenia bloc’s election campaign headquarters, Aram Vardevanyan.

“The second president of Armenia and the first president of Artsakh who has liberated lands should under no circumstances hold a debate with a person who has handed over lands, with even the foreign minister appointed by him openly announcing that he does not take into account the interests of Armenia. Not taking into account the interests of Armenia means going against them. I think it makes no sense and there is no expediency to debate such a person,” Vardevanyan told reporters.