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Serzh Sargsyan: `The Independence Generation is Our Greatest Achievement'
21:40, 20 August, 2011
YEREVAN, AUGUST 20, ARMENPRESS:
"The independence generation is our greatest achievement," RA
President Serzh Sargsyan said today during a meeting in Sevan with the
activists of "Miasin" (Together) movement and the participants "Ari
Tun" program.
"The independence is in itself an achievement. We managed to restore
our statehood and today Armenia's state serves the interests of the
Armenian people: this is independence," the president said. He added
that the Armenian people formed their army, which manages to do its
duties.
According to the president, in this period Armenia has had a
significant progress in the formation of national-state
establishments. "Surely today we have a number of issues, nonetheless,
if one looks back without bias and sees what was our state 20 years
ago, his heart will overflow with happiness." The president says in
this period Armenia managed to form democracy establishments, yet
issues are available here as well. "However today our society just
cannot be compared with that of 30-35 years ago," Serzh Sargsyan said.
He emphasized Armenia's membership to international establishments -
UN, Council of Europe, CIS, CSTO, etc. "We are involved in almost all
the leading establishments, and this means that our country is
developing with the same route, but maybe with a lower speed," the
president said.
According to the president, at the beginning of the 1990s the economy
of Soviet Armenia collapsed and first of all, in the result of this,
thousands of people left Armenia. The president says everything cannot
be accompanied only with positive phenomena. "As to the mistakes, one
should not speak much about them, but just learn lesson from them."
"One should, within the limits of his capacity, avoid making others'
mistakes a subject of big discussions, and I have no doubt that 20
years later we will be a fully democratic, legal state, and that the
critical, sizeable part of our socioeconomic issues will be solved,"
the RA president said.
21:40, 20 August, 2011
YEREVAN, AUGUST 20, ARMENPRESS:
"The independence generation is our greatest achievement," RA
President Serzh Sargsyan said today during a meeting in Sevan with the
activists of "Miasin" (Together) movement and the participants "Ari
Tun" program.
"The independence is in itself an achievement. We managed to restore
our statehood and today Armenia's state serves the interests of the
Armenian people: this is independence," the president said. He added
that the Armenian people formed their army, which manages to do its
duties.
According to the president, in this period Armenia has had a
significant progress in the formation of national-state
establishments. "Surely today we have a number of issues, nonetheless,
if one looks back without bias and sees what was our state 20 years
ago, his heart will overflow with happiness." The president says in
this period Armenia managed to form democracy establishments, yet
issues are available here as well. "However today our society just
cannot be compared with that of 30-35 years ago," Serzh Sargsyan said.
He emphasized Armenia's membership to international establishments -
UN, Council of Europe, CIS, CSTO, etc. "We are involved in almost all
the leading establishments, and this means that our country is
developing with the same route, but maybe with a lower speed," the
president said.
According to the president, at the beginning of the 1990s the economy
of Soviet Armenia collapsed and first of all, in the result of this,
thousands of people left Armenia. The president says everything cannot
be accompanied only with positive phenomena. "As to the mistakes, one
should not speak much about them, but just learn lesson from them."
"One should, within the limits of his capacity, avoid making others'
mistakes a subject of big discussions, and I have no doubt that 20
years later we will be a fully democratic, legal state, and that the
critical, sizeable part of our socioeconomic issues will be solved,"
the RA president said.