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Let's change to be able to trust people and law - Armenian President
news.am
March 10, 2012 | 14:00
YEREVAN. - Let's believe so that to be able to change us and our
country, to be able to change our mentality and attitude toward the
state of Armenia, President Serzh Sargsyan said.
`The moment in history has come, when the people of Armenia, all of
us, should prove in practice what's more dear to us - wicked habits
inherited from the past, whose inertia is still present in our lives,
or achievements of modern civilization? A civilization, whose roots
and twigs were cultivated also by our greats. Personally I have made
my choice. I have no doubt: only this way we will prevail and multiply
the number of our friends all over the world,' he said addressing the
Congress of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia.
`Let's change our behavior on the streets, at the working place, in
the university. Let's change people who are not on their places. Let's
change the laws if they are far from being perfect. Let's change the
culture of internal political struggle. Let's change to be able to
trust people and the law. Let's change so that streets, ministries,
universities, villages and towns, parliament and backyard become ours,
become better. As long as we don't change and don't believe, they do
not belong to us, to us all.
If you don't trust your member of the parliament, it means you don't
have one; if you don't trust your judge, it means you don't have one;
if you don't believe in your country, it means you don't have one.
Through this self-negation we have inflicted great damage on our own
home. This will takes us nowhere. We must believe to be able to
change.
But trust also needs constant nourishment. Each new change has great
potential for strengthening trust. Trust and change: these are
mutually determined and mutually fortifying phenomena. So, let's
change to trust. Let's nourish our trust with concrete work.
Let's change the appearance of our country to a degree that a person,
who left Armenia years ago, doesn't recognize it on his next visit,
and is pleasantly surprised,' he said.
`Today, it is obvious for me: if we do not change, we will miss it, we
will be late as a nation and as a state.
Those who brought us the Vehamayr Gospel manuscript (named after the
mother of Catholicos Vazgen of All Armenians, who donated it to
Matenadaran) through the depth of times had faith. I was sworn in on
that Bible. I believe in what we do and even more in what we will do.
Thus, let's believe to be able to change. Big and small, a worker and
a scientist, a successful person and the one who's still in search;
let's believe to be able to change,' he concluded.
news.am
March 10, 2012 | 14:00
YEREVAN. - Let's believe so that to be able to change us and our
country, to be able to change our mentality and attitude toward the
state of Armenia, President Serzh Sargsyan said.
`The moment in history has come, when the people of Armenia, all of
us, should prove in practice what's more dear to us - wicked habits
inherited from the past, whose inertia is still present in our lives,
or achievements of modern civilization? A civilization, whose roots
and twigs were cultivated also by our greats. Personally I have made
my choice. I have no doubt: only this way we will prevail and multiply
the number of our friends all over the world,' he said addressing the
Congress of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia.
`Let's change our behavior on the streets, at the working place, in
the university. Let's change people who are not on their places. Let's
change the laws if they are far from being perfect. Let's change the
culture of internal political struggle. Let's change to be able to
trust people and the law. Let's change so that streets, ministries,
universities, villages and towns, parliament and backyard become ours,
become better. As long as we don't change and don't believe, they do
not belong to us, to us all.
If you don't trust your member of the parliament, it means you don't
have one; if you don't trust your judge, it means you don't have one;
if you don't believe in your country, it means you don't have one.
Through this self-negation we have inflicted great damage on our own
home. This will takes us nowhere. We must believe to be able to
change.
But trust also needs constant nourishment. Each new change has great
potential for strengthening trust. Trust and change: these are
mutually determined and mutually fortifying phenomena. So, let's
change to trust. Let's nourish our trust with concrete work.
Let's change the appearance of our country to a degree that a person,
who left Armenia years ago, doesn't recognize it on his next visit,
and is pleasantly surprised,' he said.
`Today, it is obvious for me: if we do not change, we will miss it, we
will be late as a nation and as a state.
Those who brought us the Vehamayr Gospel manuscript (named after the
mother of Catholicos Vazgen of All Armenians, who donated it to
Matenadaran) through the depth of times had faith. I was sworn in on
that Bible. I believe in what we do and even more in what we will do.
Thus, let's believe to be able to change. Big and small, a worker and
a scientist, a successful person and the one who's still in search;
let's believe to be able to change,' he concluded.