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DILIJAN "MOUNTAIN FLOWER"
HAKOB BADALYAN
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society-lrahos18569.html
15/07/2010
DILIJAN International School Project initiators addressed a letter to
the Public Council in which they raised the issue on the introduction
of amendments to the "Language Law" and public education, on which
the future of the school depends. The initiators of the school, in
their letter, tried to explain in details the reasons of the creation
of the school, to present its importance both for the development of
Armenia and for the Armenians from Diaspora remain "Armenians". The
initiators of DILIJAN School ask several questions.
"Does the nation want to thrive and develop, or simply to survive?
Does Armenia want to actively engage global processes, or to remain as
an isolated state with its own laws and rules pertaining exclusively
to Armenia and paying no attention to events happening beyond its
boundaries?"
It would be very difficult and even absurd to give a negative answer
to these questions and say that the Armenian nation does not want
all this, does not want to develop and prosper either to be a part
of the rest of the world. We can be sure the Public Council too will
answer in this way. In general, it is not important what the Public
Council will answer because it has in common with the society just
as much as the government has. As for the connection of the power
with the society, it has been so much "revealed" during these years,
that it is useless to dwell on it or better to say on the lack of it.
So let us dwell on the letter by the initiators of DILIJAN School as
if it is not directed to the Public Council allied with the power but
to the public. By the way, the initiators of the school had better
having addressed an open letter to the society rather than to the
imitation cell called Public Council.
And the citizens would have surely answered that the Armenian nation
has to develop, prosper and become a civilized part of the world,
integrate into development processes. But the citizens are also
possible to ask questions to the initiators of the school too, such as
"we have sung all the songs, and only the one on the "mountain flower"
is left" or in this case "Dilijan flower". Initiators of the school
say they are a group of Armenian businessmen worried with the future
of Armenia and fulfill Armenia 2020 project, prepare development
scenarios and set up a National Competitiveness Fund of Armenia (NCFA).
"Many participants in the Armenia 2020 project used its results to
begin realization of private initiatives of different kinds and sizes
on Armenian soil as well as abroad.
Here are just a few of them:
~U Tatev Revival Project with participation by the government, church
and private capital. The project includes restoration of the monastery
and reinstating monastic life, rebuilding the hotel complex to attract
tourists, as well as building an aerial cableway. The opening of the
aerial cableway will take place in October 2010. The project should
be fully completed by 2016.
~U "Yerevan" magazine began publication in Russian and English in 2005.
An Armenian and French language version of the magazine is planned
for 2011.
~U Help was rendered in creating a religious-cultural-educational
Armenian center in Moscow. Completion is targeted for 2011.
~U Support was lent to "Perspectives XXI - Music International
Festival" for the performers' organization in Armenia of classical
music stars Valery Gergiev, Yuri Bashmet, Krzysztof Penderecki and
other world-famous performers and conductors.
~U Since 2007, each year 10-12 young artists from Armenia receive
grants and financial support for their concert tours.
~U Initiation of the DILIJAN International School", is said in
the letter.
After having read all this, it is impossible not to be admired but
the Armenians citizens, who have faced many difficulties in their
lives will resist to the temptation of admiring and will ask, "And
what about rigged election, human rights violations, oligarchs and
oligopolies that interfere into the capillaries of the economy and
want to own even the sunflower seed business forbidding people to
be engaged in small and midsize businesses. What about the human
rights, friends and relatives of the power who are above any law,
corruption and abuse of power, power-business links, and the
millionaire officials". Does all this not fit into the idea of a
competitive nation and country? Will the world assess as in accord
with our values or with the ropeways we lay? Can a nation, a country
and a state be considered competitive in the world if people inside
it are persecuted by the power, if a country, having Constitution
and law is governed by a criminal-oligarchic perceptional system?
Isn't it true that until such a system is not changed, anything
is taken up within it will only promote its long life, and will
willy-nilly be an imitation? Perhaps, the group of businessmen, who are
making proposals to the society, are worthy thinking about all this.
From: A. Papazian
HAKOB BADALYAN
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society-lrahos18569.html
15/07/2010
DILIJAN International School Project initiators addressed a letter to
the Public Council in which they raised the issue on the introduction
of amendments to the "Language Law" and public education, on which
the future of the school depends. The initiators of the school, in
their letter, tried to explain in details the reasons of the creation
of the school, to present its importance both for the development of
Armenia and for the Armenians from Diaspora remain "Armenians". The
initiators of DILIJAN School ask several questions.
"Does the nation want to thrive and develop, or simply to survive?
Does Armenia want to actively engage global processes, or to remain as
an isolated state with its own laws and rules pertaining exclusively
to Armenia and paying no attention to events happening beyond its
boundaries?"
It would be very difficult and even absurd to give a negative answer
to these questions and say that the Armenian nation does not want
all this, does not want to develop and prosper either to be a part
of the rest of the world. We can be sure the Public Council too will
answer in this way. In general, it is not important what the Public
Council will answer because it has in common with the society just
as much as the government has. As for the connection of the power
with the society, it has been so much "revealed" during these years,
that it is useless to dwell on it or better to say on the lack of it.
So let us dwell on the letter by the initiators of DILIJAN School as
if it is not directed to the Public Council allied with the power but
to the public. By the way, the initiators of the school had better
having addressed an open letter to the society rather than to the
imitation cell called Public Council.
And the citizens would have surely answered that the Armenian nation
has to develop, prosper and become a civilized part of the world,
integrate into development processes. But the citizens are also
possible to ask questions to the initiators of the school too, such as
"we have sung all the songs, and only the one on the "mountain flower"
is left" or in this case "Dilijan flower". Initiators of the school
say they are a group of Armenian businessmen worried with the future
of Armenia and fulfill Armenia 2020 project, prepare development
scenarios and set up a National Competitiveness Fund of Armenia (NCFA).
"Many participants in the Armenia 2020 project used its results to
begin realization of private initiatives of different kinds and sizes
on Armenian soil as well as abroad.
Here are just a few of them:
~U Tatev Revival Project with participation by the government, church
and private capital. The project includes restoration of the monastery
and reinstating monastic life, rebuilding the hotel complex to attract
tourists, as well as building an aerial cableway. The opening of the
aerial cableway will take place in October 2010. The project should
be fully completed by 2016.
~U "Yerevan" magazine began publication in Russian and English in 2005.
An Armenian and French language version of the magazine is planned
for 2011.
~U Help was rendered in creating a religious-cultural-educational
Armenian center in Moscow. Completion is targeted for 2011.
~U Support was lent to "Perspectives XXI - Music International
Festival" for the performers' organization in Armenia of classical
music stars Valery Gergiev, Yuri Bashmet, Krzysztof Penderecki and
other world-famous performers and conductors.
~U Since 2007, each year 10-12 young artists from Armenia receive
grants and financial support for their concert tours.
~U Initiation of the DILIJAN International School", is said in
the letter.
After having read all this, it is impossible not to be admired but
the Armenians citizens, who have faced many difficulties in their
lives will resist to the temptation of admiring and will ask, "And
what about rigged election, human rights violations, oligarchs and
oligopolies that interfere into the capillaries of the economy and
want to own even the sunflower seed business forbidding people to
be engaged in small and midsize businesses. What about the human
rights, friends and relatives of the power who are above any law,
corruption and abuse of power, power-business links, and the
millionaire officials". Does all this not fit into the idea of a
competitive nation and country? Will the world assess as in accord
with our values or with the ropeways we lay? Can a nation, a country
and a state be considered competitive in the world if people inside
it are persecuted by the power, if a country, having Constitution
and law is governed by a criminal-oligarchic perceptional system?
Isn't it true that until such a system is not changed, anything
is taken up within it will only promote its long life, and will
willy-nilly be an imitation? Perhaps, the group of businessmen, who are
making proposals to the society, are worthy thinking about all this.
From: A. Papazian