ANAHIT BAKHSHIAN: "TO CONTINUE THIS WAY WILL MEAN TO CAST DOUBT ON EXISTENCE OF NATION ON THIS LAND"
Noyan Tapan
Feb 27, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 27, NOYAN TAPAN. The presidential elections,
post-election developments, and the home political strained situation
were the main subject of the deputies’ announcements at the February
26 last sitting of the RA National Assembly. Part of those who made
speeches expressed anxiety in connection with possible confrontation
of 2 parts of people who are in opposite poles.
Anahit Bakhshian, a member of the Zharangutiun (Heritage) faction,
the widow of NA Vice-Speaker, founding-member of RPA Juri Bakhshian,
who was fallen a prey to the October 27 terrorist act in 1999,
in particular, said: "If Yura were alive today, then he, with his
political decision, would call his RPA member colleagues to agree to
conduct a political dialogue, to listen to our citizens who express
their will through a peaceful rally and who are resolutely standing
in Liberty Square for several days, to sit with the opposition around
a negotiations table and not to strain the 2 parts of people through
different squares. He would say: let us encourage to live and act in
the interests of our statehood with our civil behaviour."
The deputy also said that today’s reality is sad and dangerous,
there exists only the blind mania to achieve the final purpose through
violence, force, there is no political will of dialogue, which should
be showed by the ruling administration. According to A. Bakhshian,
as a result no one wins, both those who voted for the authorities
and the opposition lose because the state loses its good name and
becomes weak. "To continue in this way means not only to completely
bury democracy in our country, to increase migration, to lose the
state’s good name, but also to cast doubt on the existence of the
nation in this land," announced A. Bakhshian.