PERSONALITY PROTECTED BY LAW TO BE IN FOCUS OF ATTENTION OF VAZGEN MANUKIAN’S PREELECTION CAMPAIGN

Noyan Tapan
Jan 16 2007

YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The main slogan of the preelection
campaign of Vazgen Manukian, the Chairman of the National Democratic
Union, will be a slogan regarding not so much state and political
problems, but rather ensuring freedom of personality protected by the
law. Vazgen Manukian said this to NT correspondent mentioning that the
subject of a person confidently looking at the future will be voiced
in the slogan of his preelection campaign. "Today a person in Armenia
experiences something like he experienced in the years of the USSR,
when roads were built, various objects were launched, but a person
felt himself only some small screw of all that. I think construction
of a strong state is conected with the circumstance of who solves
these problems, as they are solved if a person feels himself a free
citizen," V. Manukian said.

As regards the issue of what subjects will be the central ones in his
forthcoming preelection campaign, V. Manukian said that the subject
of Nagorno Karabakh settlement, development of regional cooperation,
including normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, and other
issues will be primary. In V. Manukian’s words, issues concerning
socio-economic bloc will be very important. As he classed, a feudal
system works in the country today and in spite of the development
of some branches, the most part of the income goes to feudals or
oligarches, which are under authorities’ control.

It should be mentioned that Vazgen Manukian’s candidature was nominated
for the presidential elections at a regular congress of the National
Democratic Union in late November 2007.