ARMENIA NEEDS NEW ELITE: EXPERT

Tert.am
14:22 14.04.10

There are no leaders in Armenia who would have a clear idea of the
path the country will go by, Gerard Shalyan, an armed conflict and
strategic relations expert said at an interview with Armenian local
daily newspaper Capital, while speaking about Armenia’s most important
domestic problems.

"Are new elites being raised [in Armenia]? Is there anyone who would
put the state’s interest above his? These are the questions that do
not inspire great hope," said Shalyan.

In his words Armenia can offer the world nothing else but a
democratically developing country as it does not have oil or other
serious resources. In that sense, Shalyan believes, Armenia’s only
potential wealth would be its democratization, simultaneous development
of its economy and the raising of new elite