THERE IS PROBLEM OF ASSISTANCE TO STABILITY AND STATEHOOD IN ARMENIA,
COORDINATOR OF STABILITY MOVEMENT SAYS

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The February 7 conference initiatied
by the Stability public movement was dedicated to the problems of
assistance to the Armenian statehood and stability. According to Suren
Mamikonian, the Coordinator of the movement, stability is a historic
necessity for the Armenian people. "The thinking built on the basis of
the lack of statehood for many centuries has not been overcome
completely and has not been fundamentally replaced by a state legal
thinking formed on a new world perception necessary for our nation," S.
Mamikonian said. In his words, today in Armenia we also have a problem
of assistance to stability and statehood for resisting serious foreign
challenges.

Ashot Melkonian, the Director of the History Institute of the RA
National Academy of Sciences, said that each Armenian should have a
feeling of statehood "and everything should be done in order to deepen
the feeling of statehood among us." According to him, we should
understand that the state is not the state official. "The state is a
strong system, the state is also the people, as well as the
opposition," A. Melkonian said.

According to Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Union of Writers of
Armenia, the fact that the election campaign, which was rather calm at
first, is becoming strained, can have a negative impact on country’s
stability at present. According to him, "history teaches that the
Armenian people suffered the most of losses due to enthronement
arguments of our rulers."