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- Spokesman for ARFD Armenian Supreme Body Spartak Seyranyan responds to our questions.
“How would you assess the “tough” resolution regarding the “Democratic Institutions in Armenia” passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe?”
“The resolution gave rise to different commentaries among the society. On the one hand there is malevolence that Europe, in the person of authoritative international structures, gave tough assessment to the post-election developments in Armenia and is making demands to the state and the authorities, in the language of an ultimatum. On the other hand there are viewpoints saying that nothing special has happened - a regular resolution has been passed.
I think we must refuse similar extremist approaches. If we try to assess the internal political situation not by the evaluations and resolutions of the Europeans but ourselves, then we must record that regrettably the terrible events that took place in the country had a really bad impact on the international rating and authority of the state.
This means all the subjects of the political life, all the political powers; no matter they are pro-governmental or pro-oppositional, they are in the parliament or not, must realize that they can struggle against the authorities but never – against the state. The struggle against, or for the sake of the authorities should never turn into a struggle against the state. In my view all the political powers must learn this lesson.
Some people think that the authorities suffered a defeat. I don’t share this viewpoint. In my opinion it was our defeat – the crush of the state and the society. Because due to the initiative of some adventurous people the state was thrown backward, in terms of democratic achievements and the international rating and authority.
After all everything is mutually linked in the world: politics, economy, etc. Each political assessment given to the state, as a rule, has economic responses, which will definitely have an impact on the simple citizens. This must one more time remind all the political powers that in their actions they must take into account the blow given to the state as a consequence of this or that step.
We must also draw a very important conclusion from what happened: the state system and society must become stronger and have immunity towards similar situations; we must also find mechanisms to solve similar problems without concussions. In this sense I think we must have a balanced attitude towards this resolution. What is done cannot be undone. A resolution has been adopted, which dictates certain conditions to us, but the implementation of those conditions, in any case derives from the interests of our state.”
“If the authorities express willingness to have dialogue with the pro-oppositional powers, including the radical society, and Levon Ter-Petrosyan announces that his goal is to achieve the “non recognition of the power”, do you see any opportunities to alleviate tension in such circumstances?”
“The possibility of the alleviation of the existing tension depends not only upon the parties to the dialogue but also the general mood of the society. If society sees one party calling for a dialogue, and taking concrete steps, and another party refusing any dialogue, people will draw their own conclusion. I don’t think the opening of the new demonstration season will change anything in this term. The most important thing is, what these demonstrations are aimed at.
The same PACE resolution exhorts the opposition to accept the decision of the Constitutional Court on the election returns. If their demonstrations are on other topics, then I don’t see anything bad in it, it is their constitutional right. But if during their demonstrations they over again announce that their candidate won the elections, then they will appear in a very illogical situation.”
“The government staff is not yet complete, but anyway do the appointments in the key positions, give reasons to think that the authority has adopted a new human resource policy?”
“The human resource policy, adopted after the elections is not important only in terms of the personnel, anyhow, the cadres, by their quality and their methods to solve problems, decide many issues. After these elections people have positive expectations, because everyone realizes the importance of changes in our life.
The first appointments, no matter they were new figures or re-appointed Ministers, derive to rather interesting tendencies. The government is accomplished with intellectuals having a dynamic working style: people whose activity is aimed at advancing ambitious programs, and foreseeing the possible challenges faced by the country.
The first steps of the newly appointed Prime Minister, his approaches and proposals heard during the government session, his commitment to work transparently, inspires hope that intellectuals are becoming important in our country. If on the highest level they set a task to produce ideas and govern the country with that “product”, this means we realize that intellectuals are our greatest wealth and human capital is the main resource to develop the country.
You can feel the spirit of changes in the President’s speeches, as well. In essence, a very important task is being set; if the government doesn’t take radical steps from the beginning, it will never gain people’s trust. The newly formed government has got two deficiencies: time and trust. Which means, the government must gain the people’s trust in a very short period of time.
I don’t mean they must take populist steps in a short period of time. People don’t need populism; they need concrete steps, which will inspire trust towards the better future of our country. The presidential elections made ground for motivating ideas and programs. The only thing left to do is to collect and implement them.”
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- 1920 At the meeting of the Entente States in San Remo (Italy) it was suggested to give a mandate over Armenia through the good offices of President Woodrow Wilson.
- 1932 The Ministries of Heavy and Light Industries, and of Forestry are created in Armenia.
- 1944 Creation of the Administration of Architectural Affairs in the Armenian SSR.
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- 2000 Death of painter Grigor Khanjyan. He was born in 1926 in Yerevan.
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