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Siranuysh Papyan, Interviewer
Interview - 25 October 2014, 12:36
Mr. Yeghiazaryan, on October 10 you attended the rally of
non-governmental three. Do you think these parties can achieve change?
Change depends on people, on the people who are standing in the front
rows. If you want to build something, save something, you should use
every tool at hand. Don't think that we are in love with the three, we
hate this government, this has led to that. Today the people who want
to have a homeland choose these tools which have been provided to us
or we have the right to use to save the situation. Yes, I attended the
rally on October 10. I watched it from aside. Yes, there is not that
compact state that can help us take revenge, but it is necessary to
stand up again on October 24, utter a convincing word. I repeat that
if my person were concerned, I would not have attended these rallies
at all but the homeland is concerned. We are facing threat of losing
our homeland. I am afraid of going to the villages. I was in villages
near Gavar about 20 days ago, people looked so bad, exhausted,
unshaved, hungry. Is this our people? How long shall we live this way?
Will we achieve qualitative change provided that the three should
fight against themselves if they come to power? Will they do it?
That's a good question therefore we must prepare people to make the
right choice during the elections. It is not necessary to have the
three in power. A person may appear whom we will prefer. I did not
commit today to elect the president from the three. We'll want and
see, and today the imperative is to save people from this situation.
Let everyone run in the elections, Serzh Sargsyan, Sahak Sahakyan,
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Gagik Tsarukyan, Raffi Hovannisian. Let them run
in the election, let us make a mistake, fight for change. If we
planted potatoes and potatoes did not grow well, does it mean we
should not plant onions or carrots? Potatoes do not grow well, carrots
may grow. We must try. Since independence we have been rolling down.
We must stop this chute.
Is real change possible in your opinion?
It is very important now to see the ground on which the three are
standing. It also depends on all of us. I cherish hope that on October
24 they will specify their words and message. Since I am not a member
of the three, I do not take part in their consultations, I act as a
citizen, I am part of people who want to live better. I am sorry for
our people, for our homeland which is being emptied at a dizzy speed.
Armenians are running away from their country. Where will they run
away? That is why we must create our homeland which will be small but
where we will be warm, safe, happy and we will know that our
grandchildren will live there and make it better. Therefore, I don't
want to discuss the three, it is not interesting to me. We must use
every tool to improve our homeland. This is our slogan.
Can you imagine a smooth change of government or early elections?
When part of the body is decayed, it must be cut off and thrown away
because it will contaminate the whole body. I support this thesis but
who wants to shed blood? Only a mad man would want to shed blood. But
we are not insane, our destiny has been stolen, our honor has been
stolen, our children were made immigrants, we have not shed anyone's
blood but today our shrine, our homeland is concerned.
Are you worried about the loss of sovereignty of Armenia?
No, much more about robbery and cynicism. The focus is on this. I am
not personifying the fight, I don't care who the president is, I want
us to have a country, be honest, strong, disciplined, if we were an
honest country, we would not have appeared in this situation. Neither
the EEU nor the EU will threaten or frighten us if we are strong. It
is hard to harm an integrate person. We must have such a country,
honest, integrate, a state that is a lighthouse of values of
Armenians, and nobody can harm us then.
There is an opinion that most members of the three will never risk
their possessions and will not go all the way.
What makes you think that if we continue this way, nobody's property
will be endangered? The government is to blame that such a situation
has occurred. Oligarch, bad politician, good people have come together
because nobody trusts the government, people with different
occupations, positions, income have come together for a change of
government... hence, everyone is threatened. The government must study
and identify their guilt and shortcomings.
This is the situation. I am going to fight, I want to fight, I want to
achieve change. We have no alternative, our house is on fire, we must
get out of it to save it.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/interview/view/33137#sthash.MFPW7DJV.dpuf
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Siranuysh Papyan, Interviewer
Interview - 25 October 2014, 12:36
Mr. Yeghiazaryan, on October 10 you attended the rally of
non-governmental three. Do you think these parties can achieve change?
Change depends on people, on the people who are standing in the front
rows. If you want to build something, save something, you should use
every tool at hand. Don't think that we are in love with the three, we
hate this government, this has led to that. Today the people who want
to have a homeland choose these tools which have been provided to us
or we have the right to use to save the situation. Yes, I attended the
rally on October 10. I watched it from aside. Yes, there is not that
compact state that can help us take revenge, but it is necessary to
stand up again on October 24, utter a convincing word. I repeat that
if my person were concerned, I would not have attended these rallies
at all but the homeland is concerned. We are facing threat of losing
our homeland. I am afraid of going to the villages. I was in villages
near Gavar about 20 days ago, people looked so bad, exhausted,
unshaved, hungry. Is this our people? How long shall we live this way?
Will we achieve qualitative change provided that the three should
fight against themselves if they come to power? Will they do it?
That's a good question therefore we must prepare people to make the
right choice during the elections. It is not necessary to have the
three in power. A person may appear whom we will prefer. I did not
commit today to elect the president from the three. We'll want and
see, and today the imperative is to save people from this situation.
Let everyone run in the elections, Serzh Sargsyan, Sahak Sahakyan,
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Gagik Tsarukyan, Raffi Hovannisian. Let them run
in the election, let us make a mistake, fight for change. If we
planted potatoes and potatoes did not grow well, does it mean we
should not plant onions or carrots? Potatoes do not grow well, carrots
may grow. We must try. Since independence we have been rolling down.
We must stop this chute.
Is real change possible in your opinion?
It is very important now to see the ground on which the three are
standing. It also depends on all of us. I cherish hope that on October
24 they will specify their words and message. Since I am not a member
of the three, I do not take part in their consultations, I act as a
citizen, I am part of people who want to live better. I am sorry for
our people, for our homeland which is being emptied at a dizzy speed.
Armenians are running away from their country. Where will they run
away? That is why we must create our homeland which will be small but
where we will be warm, safe, happy and we will know that our
grandchildren will live there and make it better. Therefore, I don't
want to discuss the three, it is not interesting to me. We must use
every tool to improve our homeland. This is our slogan.
Can you imagine a smooth change of government or early elections?
When part of the body is decayed, it must be cut off and thrown away
because it will contaminate the whole body. I support this thesis but
who wants to shed blood? Only a mad man would want to shed blood. But
we are not insane, our destiny has been stolen, our honor has been
stolen, our children were made immigrants, we have not shed anyone's
blood but today our shrine, our homeland is concerned.
Are you worried about the loss of sovereignty of Armenia?
No, much more about robbery and cynicism. The focus is on this. I am
not personifying the fight, I don't care who the president is, I want
us to have a country, be honest, strong, disciplined, if we were an
honest country, we would not have appeared in this situation. Neither
the EEU nor the EU will threaten or frighten us if we are strong. It
is hard to harm an integrate person. We must have such a country,
honest, integrate, a state that is a lighthouse of values of
Armenians, and nobody can harm us then.
There is an opinion that most members of the three will never risk
their possessions and will not go all the way.
What makes you think that if we continue this way, nobody's property
will be endangered? The government is to blame that such a situation
has occurred. Oligarch, bad politician, good people have come together
because nobody trusts the government, people with different
occupations, positions, income have come together for a change of
government... hence, everyone is threatened. The government must study
and identify their guilt and shortcomings.
This is the situation. I am going to fight, I want to fight, I want to
achieve change. We have no alternative, our house is on fire, we must
get out of it to save it.
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/interview/view/33137#sthash.MFPW7DJV.dpuf
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress