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LET LEVON AND ROBERT RESIGN
Haik Aramyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23906.html
Published: 20:43:43 - 24/10/2011
After reading the title the reader may wonder what they should resign.
They do not hold any positions, and being the first or second president
is not an office. We don't mean the position of the leader of the
Congress or membership of the board of Sistema Company. We mean
something else, which is, to some extent symbolic.
On the way to state building, it is time to introduce the institution
of the ex-president. The press raises this issue from time to time,
and perhaps it is the small number of presidents that makes everyone
set to the establishment of this institution.
It is possible to study the experience of different countries which
is rather rich and a valuable tradition has been established to use
the knowledge, experience, connections of the ex-presidents for the
benefit of the country. The ex-presidents head different foundations,
become members of authoritative universities, head think tanks.
In Armenia, this is not in place. The former presidents receive a
house, salary or benefit, office, other privileges. But at the end
of the day, they remain "pensioners". One can understand ex-presidents.
They have to stay at home, their supporters appear in the "street"
under the vicious political relations in the country, they are asked
by people to come back. They believe that they are able to save the
homeland at a critical moment, and they enter in practical politics.
In this case, their factor was used openly by foreign powers, in
this case, Russia. One can remember the "Russian stage" of settlement
of the Karabakh conflict, when the Kremlin on the one hand, and the
Armenian National Congress on the other hand, kindled the political
and moral situation regarding the NKR issue, warning that Serzh
Sargsyan would not stand and would sign the destructive agreement
with Azerbaijan. Fortunately, it did not happen regarding the clash
of interests of other foreign actors, and the Congress stopped this
political line.
Currently, another phenomenon is observed. Russia made Armenia sign
the CIS Free Trade Agreement and is making efforts to have Armenia
joint the project of the Eurasian Union. The Russian media report
plainly that if Serzh Sargsyan opposes, they will bring Robert
Kocharyan to power.
Unfortunately, over 20 years of independence, the internal and external
policy of Armenia cannot escape this vicious circle. In the meantime,
the establishment of the institution of ex-presidents, once it is set
down in the law, will prevent domestic life from foreign influence. And
the ex-presidents will not have to enter practical politics the way
it happens in Armenia, which will not lead anywhere.
For their part, they will come to prevent the undesirable steps of the
government rather than the ones to push for these steps, intentionally
or not, when the government will have to make concessions out of the
fear of growing weak.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Haik Aramyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23906.html
Published: 20:43:43 - 24/10/2011
After reading the title the reader may wonder what they should resign.
They do not hold any positions, and being the first or second president
is not an office. We don't mean the position of the leader of the
Congress or membership of the board of Sistema Company. We mean
something else, which is, to some extent symbolic.
On the way to state building, it is time to introduce the institution
of the ex-president. The press raises this issue from time to time,
and perhaps it is the small number of presidents that makes everyone
set to the establishment of this institution.
It is possible to study the experience of different countries which
is rather rich and a valuable tradition has been established to use
the knowledge, experience, connections of the ex-presidents for the
benefit of the country. The ex-presidents head different foundations,
become members of authoritative universities, head think tanks.
In Armenia, this is not in place. The former presidents receive a
house, salary or benefit, office, other privileges. But at the end
of the day, they remain "pensioners". One can understand ex-presidents.
They have to stay at home, their supporters appear in the "street"
under the vicious political relations in the country, they are asked
by people to come back. They believe that they are able to save the
homeland at a critical moment, and they enter in practical politics.
In this case, their factor was used openly by foreign powers, in
this case, Russia. One can remember the "Russian stage" of settlement
of the Karabakh conflict, when the Kremlin on the one hand, and the
Armenian National Congress on the other hand, kindled the political
and moral situation regarding the NKR issue, warning that Serzh
Sargsyan would not stand and would sign the destructive agreement
with Azerbaijan. Fortunately, it did not happen regarding the clash
of interests of other foreign actors, and the Congress stopped this
political line.
Currently, another phenomenon is observed. Russia made Armenia sign
the CIS Free Trade Agreement and is making efforts to have Armenia
joint the project of the Eurasian Union. The Russian media report
plainly that if Serzh Sargsyan opposes, they will bring Robert
Kocharyan to power.
Unfortunately, over 20 years of independence, the internal and external
policy of Armenia cannot escape this vicious circle. In the meantime,
the establishment of the institution of ex-presidents, once it is set
down in the law, will prevent domestic life from foreign influence. And
the ex-presidents will not have to enter practical politics the way
it happens in Armenia, which will not lead anywhere.
For their part, they will come to prevent the undesirable steps of the
government rather than the ones to push for these steps, intentionally
or not, when the government will have to make concessions out of the
fear of growing weak.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress