ANDRANIK MARGARIAN: “ISSUE OF RPA WAS TO KEEP INDEPENDENCE, TO PRESERVE COUNTRY FROM INNERPOLITICAL PROBLEMS”

Noyan Tapan
May 24 2006

YEREVAN, MAY 24, NOYAN TAPAN. “It was important for me and our
party during those years to assist securing of the innerpolitical
stability in our newly-independent state and to strengthen the
state by developing the economy, to increase fighting ability of our
army year by year and to fasten security of the country,” RA Prime
Minister, Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia Andranik
Margarian mentioned during the internet conference of the “Azg”
(nation) newspaper.

According to him, “we have lost numerous friends on the way to
independece, among them, during the years of the Soviet dictatorship,
and protection of that independence reached at too high price,
preserving the country from different intrigues and intriguers,
innerpolitical shocks has always been an important issue for us,
and our steps were addressed to that puprose.”

According to the RA Prime Minister, the Government today has a problem
to reduce the level of poverty in the country by developing the
economy, to create possibilities for a prosperous life. The Poverty
Overcoming Strategic long-term program has been worked out on that
purpose and has been in the process of implementation for already
many years. All the spheres are analysed in the program in details,
existing problems, ways of their solution are mentioned, and a schedule
is adopted which is being implemented at a rapid pace. It was mentioned
that the RA Government put a task at present to review the program
by the means of reducing the terms or increasing the indexes. “All
our main problems, anti-corruption struggle, reforms of the state
government system, improvement of the business and investment sphere,
etc., are summed up in the IPAP,” the RA Prime Minister emphasized.