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    SYCOPHANTS ARE THE FIRST TO BETRAY AT DIFFICULT MOMENTS
    Gevorg Haroutyunyan

    Hayots Ashkhar Daily
    01 Oct 2008
    Armenia

    Interview with MP VICTOR DALLAKYAN

    "Do you yourselves see the 36 individuals who can remain objective
    and impartial, oppose the country's President and the other state
    officials?"

    "I am sure that the most difficult task at this point falls to the
    lot of the President of the country. Out of the 36 members of the
    Public Council, 12 are going to be appointed by him. I am sure that
    the President will select such people who will really be able to
    contradict or oppose him.

    If those 12 members are people who are only going to fawn on the
    President, this institute will never become accomplished.

    During the very first session of the committee Serge Sargsyan
    emphasized this fact. The 'army' of those fawning on the President
    and the other officials is very big as it is, and there is no need
    to create a new structure for enlarging it still further.

    Besides, that poses danger to the President himself. History proves
    that the sycophants are always the first to betray, and they always
    appear in the 'army' of the opposite side. I don't think the President
    of our country needs new Brutuses.

    But finding 12 impartial and honest individuals is really very
    difficult.

    Unfortunately, there are no Sakharovs or Solzhenitsins in 0AArmenia,
    and many estimable representatives of the intelligentsia became
    politicized in the early 1990's for well-known reasons."

    "Mr. Dallakyan, is the Public Chamber just a linking channel between
    the President and the people or an attempt of introducing moral
    standards to the political domain and restoring moral values in
    politics."

    "I approve of the Public Chamber's role you sketched in the second part
    of your question. A structure set up under the President of the country
    does not really have unlimited competences,and can be influential and
    effective only due to its moral power. I am sure that the civil society
    will become accomplished when the moral values are prevalent. If the
    political circles in our country were guided by those values and the
    state government and local government systems worked efficiently,
    there would be no need to set up such structure under the President.

    After all, it is an axiomatic truth that the authorities are created
    for ensuring the welfare of their own people. Of course, this problem
    isn't solved by setting up separate structures, because the existing
    non-governmental structures may contribute to or hamper the process
    of the implementation of the authorities' main tasks."
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