ARMEN ASHOTIAN: AUTHORITIES WERE POWERLESS IN RESISTING OPPOSITION’S INFORMATION TRICKS

NOYAN TAPAN

Dec 18, 2008
YEREVAN

It is a great honor for Armenia that it has such an information agency
as Armenpress, Artur Baghdasarian, the Secretary of the National
Security Council, stated at the opening of a conference organized
on the occasion of Armenpress agency’s 90th jubilee at Yerevan State
University. According to him, today Armenpress can represent Armenia
with dignity at international circles.

In his speech made at the conference under the title Information
Wars A. Baghdasarian stated that it was decided to form an
interdepartmental commission at the National Security Council a week
ago, which should be engaged in information security problems. "If we
wish to resist information wars, we should outline an exact actions
plan," A. Baghdasarian said.

Armen Ashotian, a member of the National Assembly RPA faction, also
touched upon the subject of information wars stating that as a rule
such wars are peculiar to international subjects. However, according
to him, sometimes information wars proceed on a home political plane,
as it happened during the February 19 presidential elections. According
to A. Ashotian, during the preelection campaign and after the elections
the opposition leader managed to use a number of information tricks,
against which the authorities were powerless. According to deputy’s
observation, in general, during information wars the side attacking
the first, in this case, the opposition is more well-prepared. As an
information technology used by L. Ter-Petrosian A.

Ashotian gave the example of first President’s statement that he is
going to disorganize the power pyramid. According to the speaker,
such a formulation is called "breaking" in international practice.

YSU Rector Aram Simonian, Dean of YSU Journalism Department Naghash
Martirosian, deputy editor-in-chief of the ITAR-TASS information
agency Alexei Berezhkov also touched upon information wars.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress