JUST TO SHOW GOOD MANNERS

Currently there are many people who are interested in the developments that may follow Mr. A. Gyull’s visit to Armenia. Whether everything will end in watching the Armenia-Turkey football match or …?
In the estimation of ALVARD PETROSYAN, “The RA President’s invitation to the Turkish President is a normal attitude displayed on the state level. As to whether or not he will come, it’s up to him. I just consider it as a manifestation of good manners, nothing more.”
According to Ms. Petrosyan, “the invitation of the President insults neither our national feelings nor history and nor even demands for justice. As to the conversations about some committees, I consider it a wrong formulation.
By the way, the same opposition-run press which used to support the idea of setting up a Turkish-Armenian committee, has now become ‘more Catholic than the Pope’. It is just timeserving. I know that Mr. Gyull may just come here, watch the football match and go. But his visit may also have some continuation.”
Doesn’t A. Petrosyan have fears of such continuation? The Armenian market is flooded with cheap Turkish products, low-quality Turkish music and tastelessness as it is.
Our interlocutor is convinced that all this results from the lack of education. “If the bazaar (the Armenian-Turkish trade is currently on this level) and the practice of filling the pockets of some people are going to have more weight than our historical recollection, the recollection of our losses and the demands for justice, that will mean that this is our true nature. But I am sure that it isn’t so.
The majority viewpoint is different; it is aimed at the protection of their motherland. No one has asked them about their opinion, but if it weren’t for the majority, we wouldn’t be a nation with a history of 5000 years. That’s why I am optimistic.”
A. YE.

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