The leader of New Times opposition party dubbed Armenian Prime Minister's ill-boding statement on relations between coalition parties a blackmail.

"Those who cooperate with us will only gain by it; those who refuse, will be back to square one," Tigran Sargsyan was quoted as saying at National Assembly when commenting on a rumoured conflict with Prosperous Armenia party.

“As a third person in the state, the Prime Minister must be careful about his public statements,” Aram Karapetyan told a news conference in Yerevan.

However, as PM spokesman Aram Ananyan noted earlier, an attempt was made to distort the meaning of PM’s statement, insinuating that it was addressed to RPA coalition partners. As Ananyan noted earlier, “the statement was meant for forces that use political struggle to pursue their personal goals rather than promote the country’s development. The statement does not refer to Prosperous Armenia, our coalition partner, which renders the rumours to the opposite rather absurd.”