Armenian defence minister rules out revolution

Arminfo
25 Jul 05

YEREVAN

A revolution is ruled out in Armenia because we encountered a similar
situation in the early 1990s, Armenian Defence Minister Serzh
Sarkisyan told a meeting with participants in the third Pan-Armenian
Youth Forum.

He said revolutions in post-Soviet republics were carried out in
places where power was in the hands of former Soviet leaders. The
minister also said colour revolutions, which in fact were coups d’etat
because they didn’t bring about a change of public structure,
succeeded in countries where power was too weak.

Sarkisyan added that if a third of the Armenian population (about one
million people) demanded that the authorities “resign”, he would
personally urge everyone [as published, presumably in the government]
to resign.

“Everyone who has 100,000-200,000 dollars can ask 20,000-30,000 people
to take to the streets,” Sarkisyan said, Armenian public radio said.