Armen Harutyunian: Tolerance should become component of our culture

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YEREVAN, MARCH 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The state should take measures so that
ordinary citizens and small business will not carry the main burden of
the global financial crisis, while big business will assume the major
part of the problem’s solution, the Ombudsman of the RA Armen
Harutyunian stated at the March 10 press conference. According to him,
he is concerned about the Armenian authotities’ previous statements
that "the crisis will not reach us". "It means that we have created a
closed Stalin-type system," the ombudsman said.

At the request of a reporter, A. Harutyunian commented on the prime
minister Tigran Sargsyan’s statement that "spite and intolerance are
casting new cartridges: there will be new murders if we are unable to
change radically this atmosphere". By saying "murders", T. Sargsyan
meant "the October 27 assassinations". The ombudsman said that there
will be no new murders, and the prime minister’s wording was not good.
"We should realize that tolerance should become a component of our
culture," A. Harutyunian underlined.