PM APPEALS FOR PUBLIC SOLIDARITY, COOPERATION

Interfax
March 5 2009
Russia

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has urged Armenian authorities to form
am atmosphere of public solidarity and cooperation.I am perfectly
aware of the fact that the government and other power branches are
responsible for forming an atmosphere of cooperation and solidarity
for the simple reason that they have relevant mechanisms, Sargsyan
said at the meeting of the national government on Thursday.

Sargsyan commemorated Armenian late prime minister Vazgen Sargsyan
who was killed in 1999. Thursday is the day of the late premier’s
50th birth anniversary.

The terrorist act at the Armenian parliament on October 27, 1999,
killed the prime minister, Speaker Karen Demirchian, two deputy-
speakers, one minister and three deputies.

It is time to see whether Armenian society has truly learned its
lessons from the Sargsyan murder and understood that intolerance and
evil prepare the ground for new assassinations, he said.

Critique and freedom of speech are certainly necessary so that the
government could understand its mistakes. But this critique exceeds
every limit sometimes and the media posts lies and evaluations that
have nothing to do with the reality. We must still do a lot under
these circumstances, Tigran Sargsyan said.

I had been a member of the radical opposition for five years. I
know that I am guilty of many things and I ask our opponents for
forgiveness of our mistakes, my personal mistakes. We must unite and
develop cooperation. This is the only way to succeed, Sargsyan said.