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    THE STORY OF AN ADDRESS WHICH LOST ITS MEANING
    Hakob Badalyan

    Lragir.am
    12:30:19 - 02/02/2009

    Four months have passed since Serge Sargsyan's first State of the
    Country address from the rostrum of the National Assembly. What has
    changed in our country since then? What effect has the presidential
    address had, which outlined the notions to guide the activities of the
    government, the relations between the government and the society? It
    should be noted that the address has changed almost nothing in the
    life of Armenia, it has been forgotten. First, nobody seems to remember
    about this historical address.

    This must give the president reason to think. The reason is that
    not even a small part of the declared approaches has been brought
    into being.

    "Our attainments and plans will lose their meaning if the future
    generations grow up with the wrong dreams, if the hero of the Armenian
    child is the youth who rides in an expensive car rather than the youth
    who wins a school contest. Consequently, our attainments and plans
    will lose their meaning in case our society does not face education,"
    Serge Sargsyan said on October 2 at the National Assembly. The
    recent notorious letter of the speaker of the National Assembly to
    the speakers of parliaments of the CoE members is the best indicator
    of appreciation of education by the Armenian government.

    "We all know that things happen in our life when20separate people
    decide to resort to strength, solve problems through force. I announce
    that I do not understand that, I do not accept that. In the Republic
    of Armenia nobody can consider themselves to be unpunished, in the
    Republic of Armenia nobody can entitle themselves to the functions of
    the state. I advise everyone to abstain from these rooted vices because
    otherwise the consequences are going to be heavy," Serge Sargsyan said
    October 2. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan's reprimand to the deputy
    ministers of health Tatul Hakobyan and Abraham Manukyan a few days
    ago who beat someone with their friends in a restaurant indicates how
    the government cannot understand and accept when government officials
    solve problems through force. All they get was a reprimand. Besides,
    nobody has been arrested for similar incidents in the streets. And
    such incidents were many in the past few months.

    "We must pursue change in the culture when the way of earning and
    prospering is avoiding competition through dirty, unacceptable and
    illegal ways, where the greatest talent is the guile of the person
    who avoids competition, which shatters the foundation of the young
    Armenian state. We must come together to build a society of young,
    ingenious young men where corruption is unnecessary and illogical,"
    Serge Sargsyan said. Is it not illogical that so far no case of
    corruption involving a high-ranking government official has been
    revealed? Is it not illogical that there is corruption in the
    country, and the government admits its existence but only lower
    ranking officials are arrested or dismissed as part of the battle
    on corruption? Was that the new image of battle on corruption about
    which Serge Sargsyan spoke in his presidential address?

    Serge Sargsyan said group interests are unacceptable but within the
    four months that have passed since his address the government has
    taken no practical steps to persuade and prove to all the layers of
    the society that Armenia is everyone's home, it is not only the home of
    those who have power and rule in their homeland through that power. The
    government continues to declare servants of the world plot all those
    Armenians and Armenian nationals who dare express a different opinion,
    who dare protect their rights and freedoms, who speak about democracy,
    human rights, who dare express an opinion that differs from that of
    the government.

    Four months have passed since the first address of the president but
    it is almost impossible to notice four basic changes which would
    assure the citizens that the address is not a mere Constitutional
    demand but psychology and mentality to which the person who utters
    the address is committed.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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