SITUATION CONTAINING ELEMENTS OF PUBLIC CRISIS

The ARFD Armenian office convened its 14th Supreme Assembly in the town of Vanadzor from the 18th till the 20th of July. With the purpose introducing the issues discussed during the assembly, MP ARMEN ROUSTAMYAN, representative of the ARFD Supreme Body of Armenia, yesterday organized a press-conference in the National Press Club.
According to the speaker, the Assembly held a thorough discussion on the country’s current situation and made certain confirmations. “According to our estimations, Armenia’s current situation contains elements of a public crisis,” A. Roustamyan mentioned.
One of the reasons of the country’s tense situation is that “the paces of development in general trends are unsatisfactory. Democracy, a rule of law country and a social state: these are the trends the activities of which the Supreme Assembly estimated as unsatisfactory. That’s to say, Dashnaktsutyun is required to sharply speed up the paces of the development of Armenia, by implementing its programs and investing its direct potentials.”
At the same time, A. Roustamyan noted that the slow paces of the country’s development are conditioned not only by internal but also external factors. “We should bear in mind that we have a neighboring country the relationship with which cannot, mildly speaking, be characterized as friendly. We are all the time faced with the threat of war. And the indexes of the development of that republic are within the limits of 25 percent. Naturally, this stipulates our future plans. And this is really a serious threat to us.”
The next confirmation of the Supreme Council concerned the tense situation resulting from the post-electoral developments. Another element of the public crisis is this, and it is possible to overcome this situation in case the NA interim committee dealing with the investigation of the March 1-2 developments manages to justify and satisfy the expectations of the public.
“The committee is required to do its best to make its conclusions acceptable to the public and arouse trust in its activities. And last but not the least, the committee should be consistent in its efforts towards disclosing all the events that occurred on March 1-2,” the MP underlined.
Answering the questions of the journalists, A. Roustamyan mentioned that Dashnaktsutyun estimates the cooperation with the coalition partners as positive, and the Supreme Council confirmed that “the party’s decision to form part of the coalition is justified.”
As regards the issue of the Armenian-Turkish relations, the attitude of the ARFD remains unchanged. According to the representative of Dashnaktsutyun party, “Turkey’s preconditions for establishing bilateral relations are unacceptable; these are ultimatums rather than preconditions. As to the issue of the Genocide, it mustn’t become a subject of discussions and speculations.
And in case the Turkish President’s possible visit to Yerevan becomes a reality, Dashnaktsutyun will profit by the occasion and raise the intricate issues between the two countries in a “civilized manner” (rallies, protest actions).
KIMA YEGHYAZARYAN

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