ADMINISTRATIVE-CRIMINAL CONSOLIDATION THREATENS NATIONAL SECURITY

Lragir.am
9 Aug 06

The administrative-criminal community, which formalized its aspirations
on July 22, is ready to sacrifice even the most important national and
public issue to establish their right to rule. The former foreign
minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan has this opinion, who
commented on the possible developments in the political sphere for
the Lragir. He believes that this government pole already threatens
the national security of Armenia.

Mr. Arzumanyan, on the eve of elections in Armenia we have always
witnessed mobilization of the resources of power, so what is the
reason of such an unprecedented reaction to the Republican Party –
Serge Sargsyan consolidation?

Alexander Arzumanyan: The corrupt officials and the criminal business
rounding up around the defense minister and capturing the ruling body
of the Republican Party is an action that threatens the national
security of Armenia. It is apparent that another plan to foil the
election and seize power through criminal terror is prepared.

The possibility of implementation of such an anti-state action is
directly connected with the behavior of Robert Kocharyan. The eight
years of struggle against the law through criminal methods have turned
the institution of presidential power the prisoner of the machine of
common terror as the term of office of Kocharyan is coming to its end.

In order to establish absolute rule over the government system, this
political and criminal co-existence wants to make Kocharyan recognize
its "right" to control this machine freely.

What should Robert Kocharyan do in your opinion, is he able not
to recognize the right of the criminal he relied on all through
his office?

Kocharyan does not have the right to ignore the interests of the
society, replacing them with his personal interests and the problem
of insuring his own future. Moreover, coming to power with a mask
of a guarantor of the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Robert
Kocharyan has turned the fate of the people of Nagorno Karabakh into
a target for the political aspirations of the criminal system he had
created. By consistently overlooking the process of criminalization
of the political sphere he, in fact, pushes forward the processes
undermining the state.

Choosing the Karabakh issue as a sphere for causing a home political
crisis, the criminal are ready to sacrifice the fate of the people
of Karabakh as well. The "successful" attempt at seizing power in
1998 dazzled this criminal union in Armenia, and what is more, it has
dazzled Arkady Ghukasyan, who is concerned about prolonging the term
of his office, thus automatically favoring these plans.

Robert Kocharyan witnesses this. The society and the political forces
worried about the future of Armenia cannot allow Robert Kocharyan to
solve his personal problems at the expense of the interests of the
publics of Armenia and Artsakh.