MP: ARMENIA’S FUTURE DEPENDS ON LEADERSHIP’S BALANCE POLICY

Arka News Agency, Armenia
Feb 22 2007

YEREVAN, February 22. /ARKA/. Armenia’s future depends on the
authorities’ balance policy, Vazgen Manukyan, Armenian National
Democratic Union leader and MP, said Tuesday at a press conference
in Yerevan.

In his opinion, first of all Armenia should leave without attention
provocations coming from Azerbaijan.

"Along with that, Armenian authorities should make ties with Armenian
communities worldwide closer and search for allies instead of using
their positions for earning money", he said.

Manukyan thinks that Armenia’s foreign policy should be based on
force and sees this force in democracy. He thinks nationalist ideas
are peculiar to Armenian people and blame Armenian authorities for
not using this resource for the state development and "suffocating"
it instead, "making favor to our enemies, first of all Azerbaijan.