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    NATIONAL INTERESTS SHOULD PREVAIL OVER PRIVATE ONES - ARMENIAN ACTOR

    10:36 * 19.08.14

    In an interview with Tert.am, the merited Armenian cinema and
    theater actor and stage producer Yervand Manartyan addressed
    the recent escaltions along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and
    the Nagorno-Karabakh Contact Line, highlighting the importance of
    pan-national consolidation and the ability of distinguishing between
    national and private interests.

    What are your concerns in terms of the foreign threats linked to the
    situation in Armenia over the recent period?

    Those are just routine political developments, so I do not see
    anything strange. We are simply people educated in the Soviet years,
    so whenever we hear anyone express his or her opinion, it seems to
    us that something unusual has taken place. Such is life; nothing out
    of the ordinary.

    With the situation being quite tense along the border, many freedom
    fighters [veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war] decided to go to the
    frontline. Do you see any hazard about all that?

    That hazard has been with us for several years now; it has to do with
    our geopolitical location. Our situation is something very usual in
    such a neighborhood. So what neighborhood is this? No nation around
    the globe is facing a situation like this, surrounded exclusively by
    [countries pursuing] contrary religious beliefs. We are a Christian
    state, the south being Muslim, and the east being Muslim, and the
    west being Muslim too. I cannot, of course, say anything about the
    Persians, but they too pursue a different belief.

    As early as at the beginning of this year, you took part in the
    demonstrations of freedom fighters calling for a government change,
    but they too, recently forgot about their demand. Do you think they
    felt the threat to the country?

    They would initially make ardent calls, but I think they sometime
    lost something somewhere. There was an instant they could have been
    more consistent and benefited more, but they missed the moment. Such
    things happen. That's a regular process of state building.

    As for the freedom fighters, their problem is completely unrelated
    to the [demand for] a government change. We very much want to get a
    finalized reply, but that's not what history proves. We want to see
    problems immediately resolved, but things never go that way. Every
    Armenian has his or her own problems.

    The right thing is the situation we are in now. We must be able
    to single out the problems which are purely national to dedicate
    ourselves to their solution before switching over to private ones.

    Serious problems are never solved at one blow.

    What's the national problem which you think must be distinguished
    from all other problems to be properly considered?

    We must be able to become a country as we are building a state. We
    did not have a state for many years, and that's the source of all
    our problems. Fortune has given has a chance to create a statehood,
    but that's a problem the generations have to solve. No nation around
    the globe has this kind of fate, so this is a very complicated issue.

    Another problem we have is that we are very much scattered around
    the world. We all the time say, 'We are Armenian', but an Armenian in
    the United States has interests different from the Armenian in Armenia.

    What is your understanding of national and private interest today?

    A private interest is something all nations have. That's the result
    of everyday activity. We cannot say, for instance, that people in
    Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] share the same interests as those in the
    Lori region are the . For me, a prevalent national interest today is
    our ability to build a state. We are in that span, as we've never had
    that to date. It is a very complicated process which goes on rather
    well today. We need several generations for that. Do you want those
    problems to be resolved in a matter of 20 years? That isn't the way
    things happen.

    My belief is that whatever is happening today is the absolutely the
    right thing; we simply have too many expectations and desires.

    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/08/19/manaryan1/

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