"OWNERS OF HISTORY"

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[04:47 pm] 22 September, 2006

First RA Prime Minister Vazgen Manoukyan informed in "Mirror" club
today that he did not participate in the demonstration of the 15th
anniversary of Independence as he was not invited. First RA President
Levon Ter-Petrosyan and first RA Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian
were not invited either.

"They feel like they are the owners of history", Vazgen Manoukyan said.

Let us remind you that former Minister of Defense Vagharshak
Haroutyunyan and former Foreign Ministers Vahram Papazyan and Alexander
Arzoumanyan had not received invitations either. As for medals and
awards many people got in connection with the 15th anniversary of
independence, Vazgen Manoukyan said that although the process of
award-giving itself is a positive phenomenon, "for today’s authorities
the medals are a way of forming their team and not the reflection of
objective reality".