Recently the newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak wrote that U.S. Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch was attempting to get Serzh Sargsyan and opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan to have a face to face meeting, with the aim of starting a dialogue. Today, Galust Sahakyan, who heads the Republican Party faction in the National Assembly, said that such statements were unfounded rumor. "I have no knowledge of such a meeting because nothing of the kind exists," he said. Mr. Sahakyan said that such news, if true, woule=d be hard to keep under wraps.