SEPTEMBER 21 IS NOT INDEPENDENCE DAY

Lragir.am
20-09-2007 15:00:18

September 21 is not the independence day of Armenia, May 28 is, the
leader of the National Self-Determination Union Paruir Hairikyan
stated September 21 at the Hayeli Club. According to him, Armenia had
gained independence on May 28, whereas September 21 was the day of
self-determination.

Paruir Hairikyan also recalled that the struggle for the independence
of Armenia was initiated by Haykaz Khachatryan in 1966. The leader of
the NSDU says the movement for independence which was persecuted in
the Soviet Union led to the movement of Artsakh, the
self-determination of Armenia and Artsakh, meanwhile now they say the
movement of Artsakh led to independence. Hairikyan who spend about 20
years in prison during the movement for independence said Armenia was
the only country in the Soviet Union which had an organized movement
for independence.

Hairikyan says it is pointless to consider the advantages of the
independence because it is in every normal person, and there is no
need to mention the advantages. However, the leader of the NSDU said
unfortunately Armenia has conceded one of the key components of
independence, the energy independence, to Russia. "These issues should
be discussed on the Independence Day but these issues can be solved,"
Paruir Hairikyan said, noting that if we have a proper government in
the future, this problem will be solved in two or three months.

"If in those hard times our people changed the world, changed the
world order, demolished the empire of vice, they will not let their
rights be violated," Paruir Hairikyan says.