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| 18:16:13 | 23-09-2005 | Social |
ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE IS BETTER
On September 23 14 years ago the RA Supreme Council declared Armenia an
independent democratic country excluded from the Soviet Union, based on the
results of the pan-national voting two days ago.
`We were simply a colony in the USSR, and that’s what we still are now. We
are not independent and we will never be, until Van and Kars are ours, until
we have large territory. Until then the word `independence’ is an empty
one’, 68-year-old Rouben Torosyan complains after 14 years.
45-year-old Gohar Simonyan is of the same opinion, `It was different back in
the day. We were dependent on the Soviet Union only, and now we depend on
the whole world. What’s the difference? I’m discontent with our way of life.
Unemployment is terrible, people have no work, and they cannot live’.
Irrespective of the social difficulties, the RA citizens cannot but admit
that `independence is a good thing’. `We are happy to be independent, as
dependence is not good. I participated in the meetings for independence, and
my hopes are justified. I’m very pleased’, said Christine Haroutyunyan. And
although there is no work, Hovhannes Hounanyan is full of hope, `It is all
not so bad. There are positive tendencies that the jobs will be re-created.
What is important is that Armenia is an independent republic’.