A. MANUCHARYAN: "HASN’T BEEN MORE UNSTABLE"

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11/05/10

Armenia has never been in a more unstable state than now because there
is no system for it to be stable," announce today former presidential
adviser on national security and Minister of Internal Affairs Ashot
Manucharyan.

He doesn’t agree with the formulation that Armenia is leading an
innovative foreign policy. "We are in the role of a responder. Other
countries are involved in foreign policies. We simply either record
their decisions or don’t respond." According to him, the reason for
that are the distorted notions and philosophy as a result of which
one person can make decisions.

"In 1988, the entire nation was involved in foreign policy and it
was a serious potential," says Ashot Manucharyan, adding that even
a tomato seller was distributing flyers after work. Armenia had
serious achievements and supporters at the time. Manucharyan also
tried to present the reason for pushing Karabakh out of the process
of negotiations.

"If the negotiating side is interested in solving issues of state
and national concern, it prefers to have many components in the
process of negotiations because that increases the flexibility of
the system. In addition, that configures the conflict in a way that
makes it correspond to reality and gives the opportunity to lead more
effective policies."

Ashot Manucharyan took note that foreign policy is the continuation of
domestic policy and since money is the prevailing value in domestic
policy and there is nothing that unites people than income, it is
reflected adequately in foreign policy as well.

Ashot Manucharyan noted that unlike Azerbaijan, Armenia has made a
serious mistake by not including the factor of refugees as a component
of the peace process.

One of the journalists asked Manucharyan if he wished to ask
forgiveness for blaming the authorities for turning Meghri into a
topic for negotiations in 2000. Ashot Manucharyan reiterated that
there was a version of Meghri and if Armenia had a parliament that
would discuss that issue, it would be clear who were Armenia’s enemies
and who had to apologize.

As far as the possibility of war is concerned, Ashot Manucharyan told
"A1+" that the restart of a war was theoretically possible, but not
in essence. "There is no prerequisite for the restart of a war today,"
said Manucharyan.

Predators and the greedy

Ashot Manucharyan considers appropriation of the Western model
as the main issue facing the country, but if it is considered to
be a consumer system in the West, in Armenia it has turned into
the model of a predatory human. He classified Armenians into three
groups-greedy forces, predatory forces and the ones fighting against
them in this storm.

Manucharyan believes that the youth movement, which he considers
members of the group fighting against the greedy and predators,
contributed to his return to politics. He hopes that the psychology of
consumerism will not be idolized in the case of selecting a correct
philosophy.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress