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YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 6, ARMENPRESS:Asked last Saturday to comment on ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosian’s speech during an October 26 rally in Yerevan in which he reiterated his fierce criticism of Armenia’s current leadership, describing it as a “criminal regime which is corrupt from top down,” prime minister Serzh Sarkisian said he was preoccupied with rising prices of cooking oil, butter and some other foodstuff rather than with seeking to reiterate to a speech. “There has not been an appropriate occasion for me to refer to Ter- Petrosian’s allegations, especially that much more critical speeches had been sounded from that same square denouncing the ex-president,” Sarkisian said. He added that he will response to Ter-Petrosian’s allegations when the time comes and when there is a more convenient occasion, ‘but I will never speak either about Ter-Petrosian’s brother or other members of his family.” The latest remark by Sarkisian referred to Ter-Petrosian’s allegation that Serzh Sarkisian’s brother Alexander “an ordinary bus driver has got so rich in one or two years that he is able to make tens of millions of dollars in investments not in his native Artsakh (Karabakh) but in the United States of America?”