SERGE SARGSYAN: I ALSO FEEL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE EVENTS OF MARCH 1

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14.03.2008 11:48

RA President elect, Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan responded to some
80 questions of the citizens during a TV interview yesterday.

"I also feel responsibility for what happened on March 1, since we
did not manage to prevent. If we did not manage to prevent, then we
have our share of guilt. But today it’s not the level of guilt that
we must think about, although it is also extremely important. Today
we must think how to eliminate the consequences of the tragedy," RA
President elect, Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan said in response to
the question whether he feels responsibility for the events of March 1.

"I’m in peace with my conscience, but my conscience is troubled,
because the situation in the country is tense, because many people
are disposed against each other despite their will. However, there
are people in our country, whose conscience is calm. For instance,
in the morning of March 2nd Levon Ter-Petrosyan called to people and
said he had never slept so peacefully," Serge Sargsyan said.

The President elect noted that there was no decision to disperse
the participants of the sitting strike in the Liberty Square. He
added that it should be clear to everyone that everything that the
Prosecutor or the Police declare and everything that will come out as
a result of the investigation is exact. "We have no desire to conceal
anything. I’m sure that the Police went not to disperse the rally, but
to check the existence of weapons. If the Police intended to disperse
the strikers, it had to foresee a whole chain of arrangements. There
were no detentions then.

Tens of policemen were wounded: if the Police were going to disperse
the rally, then why they had no weapons, no special clothing, no
helmets, no truncheons," Serge Sargsyan asked.

The Prime Minister noted that if the strikers did not have the
wish to collide, they would not have prepared corresponding tools
in advance. They would allow the Police to check whether there were
weapons. "I promise that all the materials connected with those events
will later become the property of the society," Serge Sargsyan said.

In response to the question about the possible dialogue with Levon
Ter-Petrosyan, Serge Sargsyan noted that it’s definite that the
polarization must be reduced. "I have never opposed any dialogue,
but it’s clear to everyone that there should be two participants
of the dialogue. If Levon Ter-Petrosyan is going to insist that he
was elected President with 65% of the votes and will not accept the
decision of the Constitutional Court, what kind of dialogue can we
speak about?" Serge Sarsgayn noted.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress