SERZH SARGSYAN: INTEREST OF ONE OR SEVERAL PERSONS CANNOT BE HIGHER THAN STATE INTEREST

Noyan Tapan
June 1, 2009

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN. RA President Serzh Sargsyan congratulated
the Republican Party of Armenia, Bargavach Hayastan party, and the
Armenian National Congress on the occasion of succeeding in Yerevan
Council of Elders elections and wished them fruitful work in the
staff of Council of Elders.

According to S. Sargsyan, the foundation of a new government system
is laid with the elections, which is a serious progress in the
direction of strengthening democratic mechanisms in Armenia. In
his congratulatory address he mentioned that the May 31 elections
and the whole preelection stage showed that "we managed to solve the
considerable part of problems existing in electoral processes and moved
forward in the direction of solving the others." As a result, according
to S. Sargsyan, this election was indeed a serious step forward.

The President presented his position in connection with violations
recorded at some polling stations: "The interest of one or several
persons cannot be higher than the state interest, and fair elections
are state’s absolute interest. They require not only exclusion of
violations, but also consistency in the issue of disclosure and
liquidation of violations.

Therefore all of us demand that each case of violation be disclosed
and everybody guilty be punished and called for liability with the
whole strictness of the law."