ALVARD PETROSYAN FORGIVES OSKANIAN BUT NOT SARGSYAN

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[05:56 pm] 18 April, 2007

Today Alvard Petrosyan, poet-publicist and member of the ARF
Dashnaktsutyun, pointed out that Armenia must give up the idea of
"patrons" as afterwards Moscow and Washington will cease to be our
elder brothers. The acting officialdom should speak Armenian out of
the state etiquette.

While speaking of the RA and RF FMs’ meeting during which Vartan
Oskanian made a speech in Russian, Ms. Petrosyan said, "I forgive
Vartan Oskanian. Maybe it is a pleasure for him to speak in Russian
or maybe he wanted to show that he masters Russian, besides Arabic,
English, Armenian and Persian. It is noteworthy that the Diaspora
representatives have flair for languages."

As for Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan’s meeting with a RF high-level
official in which the latter said "Armenia is the outpost of the
Russian Federation," Ms. Petrosyan said, "I forgive only Vartan
Oskanian for his speech in Russian. Everyone ought to speak in their
Mother Tongue both inside the country and beyond its boundaries. They
can make use of interpreters’ service in such cases. It is our fault
that the RF high-ranking official considers Armenia as Russia’s
outpost. The logics of the outpost is incomprehensible for me. Once
we get rid of that psychology and assess our capacities and dignity,
no one will dare to insult us in such a way."