HERITAGE PARTY WILL VOTE AGAINST THE PROGRAM OF THE SERZH SARGSYAN GOVERNMENT

ArmInfo
2007-06-26 16:32:00

If it was just some good wishes put on paper, we would have supported
it.

But this is a long-term official document. The way it is now it
cannot be considered as a government program. This document needs
serious improvement and our party will not vote for it, the leader
of the opposition Heritage party Raffi Hovannisian said during the
parliamentary discussions of the Government’s program today.

Heritage has not received specific answers to many of its questions
concerning the program. This document does not say how it is going
to meet the goals it declares. A government program must be based on
reality rather than good wishes. For example, the program says that
poverty must be reduced but it does not link it with appreciating AMD,
growing prices or declining spending capacity.

The program does not clearly say how to fight corruption and how
to develop small and medium- sized business, science, education and
other important spheres. Its foreign policy section contains serious
deficiencies in paragraphs concerning the Nagorno-Karabakh problem,
Armenian-Turkish relations and the protection of the country’s
sovereignty and strategic interests.