ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 21 2005

WE MUST STRENGTHEN OUR STATE: ARMENIAN PREMIER

YEREVAN, September 21. /ARKA/. Today we do not have to discuss
whether we need independence or not, stated RA Premier Andranik
Margaryan, who visited the Yerablur memorial complex on the occasion
of the 14th anniversary of Armenia’s Independence. “We must be able
to strengthen our state in the future, ensure its stability and
security,” he said. Margaryan added that social problems need first
of all to be resolved, and conditions for the return of emigrants
should be created, “for them to be able to participate in building up
a free state with us.”
In his turn, RA Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan said that the most
important achievement of independence is the right to free life. On
the other hand, “we too late started dealing with social problems of
the guys that sacrificed their lives and health for independence.”
President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Arkady Ghukasyan
said that “independence is a military, moral, economic, and political
victory.” “Without Armenia’s independence, Karabakh’s independence
would not exist. When we speak of Armenia’s independence, we mean
independence of the entire Armenia people,” he said. P.T. -0–