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AGHABEKYAN WILL SUPPORT SERGE SARGSYAN
[08:16 pm] 21 September, 2007

`Independence is our victory which was won not by an Armenian soldier
but by an ordinary peasant, worker, engineer, teacher dressed in
military uniforms,’ said ARF Dashnaktsutyun member Arthur Aghabekyan,
the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on National Security and
Interior Affairs.

According to him, the Karabakh movement resulted in the USSR collapse
and independence of republics. He emphasized Vazgen Sargsyan’s role in
the RA army establishment. Thanks to Vazgen Sargsyan our detachments
were united under one commandment.

Those days we were alone. We were able to win due to our collective
integrity,’ Aghabekyan noted.

There is one feature characteristic of all nations. No soldier is
remembered after wars, only colonels and commanders are glorified.

This is our drawback, we vociferate about their positive deeds rather
than heroism. It is our fault as since the victory of 1994 we have
been unable to `educate’ our commanders in a decent, modest way, he
said.

Aghabekyan dwelt on the forthcoming elections as well. According to
him, only an ARF Dashnaktsutyun president is capable of confronting
today’s challenges. `I say it for sure,’ he said.

In case Serge Sargsyan and Levon ter-Petrosyan appear at the second
round, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun member will support Serge Sargsyan.