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    THEY AGREE THAT THE BEST INITIATIVE IS BUILDING A STRONG STATE

    Lragir
    Dec 21 2007
    Armenia

    The foreign policy of Armenia, especially on the relation with Turkey
    should come up with initiatives, say Kiro Manoyan, ARF Bureau member in
    charge of Hay Dat and Political Affairs, and Member of Parliament from
    the Heritage Party Larissa Alaverdyan, who expressed their opinions
    on this issue on December 21 at the Hayeli Club. Larissa Alaverdyan
    even thinks that Armenia should try to set up relations of different
    levels with Turkey regarding regional development, human rights and
    other universal issues.

    "We have not knocked at the doors with initiatives, and spoken about
    issues of universal and regional importance. For instance, we discuss
    trafficking but we have never contacted their government agencies
    to know what to do about this problem," Larissa Alaverdyan says. In
    answer to the question whether it depends on Armenia only Larissa
    Alaverdyan says God owes to the doer.

    Kiro Manoyan is also for initiatives. He says, however, that relations
    between the societies will be meaningful only in case relations are
    set up between the states. "They cannot replace relations between the
    states," Kiro Manoyan says. He is for such initiatives on behalf of
    Armenia which will make Turkey start a dialogue with Armenia through
    a third party.

    In that case, could the best initiative of Armenia be building a
    strong and modern state which Turkey would have to take seriously?
    Both Manoyan and Alaverdyan agree to this opinion. "In other words,
    the way to have them take us seriously, both our neighbor and the
    international community, is to become what we have declared us to be:
    sovereign, I already start to doubt, democratic, it also arouses doubt,
    social, highly doubtful, and a legal state. In other words, if we
    want to solve external issues in the best way and most effectively,
    we must at least become a legal state," Larissa Alaverdyan says. Kiro
    Manoyan says the foreign policy is the continuation of the internal
    policy. According to him, you cannot be free in external policies if
    there is no freedom inside. "Without creating a necessary climate
    inside the country we cannot be independent and active enough,"
    Kiro Manoyan says. He thinks it is important to be strong inside
    the country. "And internal strength is not only the army," Kiro
    Manoyan says.
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