AUTHORITIES READY FOR ALL THE OPTIONS
Yesterday, for the last time in the status of a President Robert Kocharyan met with the active students of Yerevan State University, where he introduced his standpoints regarding many issues of concern.
For the beginning the leader of the Republic recorded that after following the process of the presidential elections, more than 600 international observers from CIS and European structures evaluated it as “mainly positive”. “All the candidates, all the political teams had the chance to express their standpoints. During the pre-election campaign the Mass Media have observed the letter of the law, there were no restrictions for any of them, to hold massive events and there has been no clash with the police.”
The state, in the person of law enforcement agencies has swiftly responded to all the complaints and breaches and has taken corresponding measures to eradicate them and to punish those who have breached the law. This means the failings in the election process didn’t have an “organized” nature.
Hence, “the elections are over, the Prime Minister won and expressed readiness to cooperate with all the political powers. An active process is already on. Today many candidates have responded to this appeal and during the coming 2-3 days, in my opinion, the format of the future cooperation will be formed. This is the picture.”
Of course: “ there were complaints from the candidates who didn’t agree with the election returns and there are two parallel procedures: a juridical procedure of appealing against the election returns and the “public” one. This stance was quite predictable for us. I have been elected twice and the candidate running behind me has never admitted his defeat. The same was in 1996. It has become a tradition in our reality, when the defeated candidate never accepts the election returns and never congratulates the winner candidate. Of course it is a bad tradition, but we have what we have.”
UP TO LEVON TER-PETROSYAN TO CHOOSE
In case of the ex-President, the scenario of the post-election tension was more than predictable, considering the fact that the latter had two weeks back announced about his victory: “ And after similar announcement, it is impossible to accept the election returns. Naturally he was going to appeal against them, by juridical procedure and by “massive events”, as he had already announced. In such circumstances the generals of the rallies have 4 options to come out of this situation.
First: “Continue the massive events trying to involve more and more people. But the more they continue, the more they try to involve more people, and keep them in the Theatrical Square, the more disappointed these people will be in future. We have already experienced this. It is a serious psychological factor. People have stress, after which they don’t forgive those who have caused this stress. It is a deadlock and this deadlock will very soon discredit those who want to use that tool.
Second option is the one used in 1996. That is, to attack the state bodies. In this case the organizers will immediately appear outlaw, with all the consequences deriving from it. The law enforcement agencies possess enough power, enough opportunities to observe constitutional order. No doubt! But after this, those standing on the platform will spend many years in prison and they will have lots of time to think of what they did. Of course this is the most undesirable option for everyone and for the Republic of Armenia.”
The Third scenario is as follows: the generals of the rallies “express their thankfulness to those gathered in the Theatrical Square, for their support. They send them home, and get ready for the coming elections by maintaining their pro-oppositional stance. This option is also quite sensible, which demands a levelheaded assessment, if we consider that political struggle is not a 100-meter’s race, it is a long-term and hard work.
And finally the fourth option, the softest one is: “ They send people home, express thankfulness for their support, congratulate the newly elected President, asking him to be kind with those who breached the law these days and go home to write the regular scientific work. This is probably the most logical option. And I would like to repeat that there is no other option besides the before mentioned four. We are ready for all the four options. But for me the 3rd and the 4th are the most sensible ones.
But what can the state appose to the neo-Bolshevik revolutionary movement. According to the President the maneuvering opportunities of the authorities are quite limited. Here they have only two options.
First: “to wait with patience, until the end of the performance in the Theatrical Square” this tactics that has already been experienced once, won’t bring good to Armenian revolutionaries, because what was possible in 1989-1990 in the chaotic circumstances of the collapse of the soviet empire is impossible in independent Armenia. Let alone the attempt to “attack the buildings”, which is already doomed to failure.
The second is the option of using force: “ to clean the Theatrical Square by the help of the police and give people the possibility to live in peace. In my view this option will greatly help the people who are in delusion and psychological stress, because they are kept in the square by means of different tricks. Of course it would be more desirable not to use this option.
The option of using force will be necessary only in extreme cases: “If the activity of the Police meets with confrontation, if they refuse to meet their demands. None of us has any desire to take violent actions. Our people are gathered in the Square and must try to convince them, to give chance to the political process develop in a logical way. We must try to give peaceful solution to the situation.”
However in case we take similar decision the police won’t beak up the mob immediately. At first they will be asked. Then they will be warned and only in case of resistance they will use force. “In case of resistance law will immediately work. It is a crime to show resistance to the law enforcement agencies and those who resist will be submitted to criminal liability. Using force will be the consequence of refusing to meet the demands of the police.”
As regards the behavior of the leaders standing on the platform, according to the President it is an educational subject for the students of the department of psychology.
On the other hand the organizers “successfully entertain their supporters. In my view it is rather interesting. But the most interesting thing is that they feed them. Because Armenian Pan National Movement didn’t have the habit of feeding people, on the contrary they used to take away their food.” So every cloud has a silver lining.
The President underscored that after the legal rally of February 20 the organizers didn’t even try to legalize their chronic revolutionary actions. Why? Because legalization means responsibility towards what happens during the rally. “But in this way, the crowd gathers, no responsibility. And the people are the only ones to suffer from the consequences. The people who are in delusion, had they appealed they would have definitely got permission. But they avoid working in the legal domain.”
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- 1856 Birth of the cleric, historian, ethnologist, teacher and translator, Gyoot Aghanyan (Harootyoon Ter - Arakelian) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He translated literary classics and re-wrote Yeghisheh's "Vardanants Story" in modern Armenian. He wrote textbooks on religion and library science. He was the first in Eastern Armenia to publish a wall-calendar.
- 1857 Opening of the school at Varaga Monastery (western Armenia) for the education of "orphan and homeless" children.
- 1865 Birth in Tbilisi of Teegran Hovhannisian, translator and lawyer. He translated the novels "Harootyoon" (Resurrection) written by Lev Tolstoy and "Arants Davananki" (Without Faith) written by Henry Senkeveech.
- 1867 Birth of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannisyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1933.
- 1901 Birth of the poet Sarmen (Armenak Sargsian) in Pakhvants (Western Armenia). Many popular songs have been written using his poems as lyrics.
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- 1920 The Government allots 50 million rubles for agricultural development. Agricultural tractors are brought to Armenia for the first time.
- 1930 The Sardarapat tractor plant starts production.
- 1934 Death in Yerevan of Toros Toramanyan (architecture historian).
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