ANDRANIK MARGARYAN: BEING A PRIME MINISTER IS LIKE BEING A GLADIATOR
Alisa Gevorgyan
"Radiolur"
28.03.2007 15:08
The collection of Andranik Margaryan’s speeches and interviews
was issued in 2005 under the title "There is no Alternative
to Independence." Here Andranik Margaryan showed to the public
"without tie.
Some episodes of the book are presented below.
– In case of great will it may be possible to return something from
the past, or somehow change the reality, but what is predetermined
is undisputable.
Everyone has his share of fortune. Do you believe in destiny?
– I have prejudices in this regard: what should happen will happen,
but everything will occur in its time. Maybe omens also exist, but I
think these are restricted. I think I still have a certain store of
life, since many times I have managed to come out of most difficult
situations. God has not created people faultless. Therefore, like
everyone, I have week features, but now I’m not going to enlist all
of these since I Don’t want to give an opportunity to my political
opponents to use my weaknesses.
– What would you like to have most of all?
– Peace of mind, because there are so many problems, finding solutions
to which is very difficult, since it does not depend only on you and
your friends.
There are problems the solution of which does not depend on Armenia,
either.
That is why we must have strong statehood, we must be united to
resist all the trials, as it was the case in early 1990s. To be short,
there are many difficulties, and there will always be.
– What did the Prime Minister’s position give you and what did it take?
– It gave me great experience, patience and the capacity to listen
to others. What it took was my health, but I still have some in store.
– Do you take vacations?
– I have not taken a vacation in the past 10 years.
– Hadn’t you recovered on 1999?
– I underwent a serious operation on October 15, 1999. But today
I have no health complaints. I hope I will still live long without
applying to a doctor.
– Is there anything you are proud of?
– It’s our independence. During the years of struggle for freedom and
independence none of us could expect that we would see our independent
statehood.
But we were assured we had to continue the struggle at least for the
generations to come. Today we are alive and we see this independent
statehood and participate in its creation. There can be no greater
pride than this.
– What do you feel sorry for?
– I do not feel sorry for the past. I simply think that time could
have been used more efficiently.
– What will you wish?
– I wish everyone to be far from misfortunes, to be far from Prime
Minister’ s position, from Government and this kind of things. Being
a Prime Minister is like being a gladiator: you either fail or be
killed. When assuming the position, I knew that people would remember
what I have not done, since there are so many problems, that one cannot
resolve these all together. The glance of the people is directed at
the Prime Minister.