CURRENT ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES DO NOT WISH TO FORM COMMUNITY OF CITIZENS LIVING BY LAW, HRANUSH KHARATIAN SAYS
Noyan Tapan
Ju ne 20, 2008
YEREVAN, JUNE 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Though after the March 1 events the
authorities stated that their first and foremost task is to gain
society’s confidence, the four-year activity of Public Television,
to put it mildly, was aimed at liquidating the crumbs of that
confidence. Ethnographer Hranush Kharatian stated at the June 20
press conference.
According to her, H1 did its best to liquidate that confidence and
"everything done by the television was a special aggressive step
against the authorities." "By Public Television they called robbers
people taking part in the rally, a thought was periodically voiced that
Armenian society has been split at the bidding of some Buddhist-Masonic
or Jewish-Masonic groupings, which further deepened society’s distrust
to the authorities," H. Kharatian emphasized.
According to H. Kharatian, the authorities-society dialogue cannot
take place, as they treat society by shaking their fist, shaking their
finger, and sometimes kicking. "In my opinion, we have a crisis of
power in general, and it is a phenomenon that continues since 1993,"
she said.
According to Alvard Petrosian, a member of the NA ARFD faction,
today the authorities "make every effort" to start a dialogue
with society. While the opposition is not willing to do it, as,
according to her, "first RA President Levon Ter-Petrosian is not
able to conduct a dialogue with society. As A. Petrosian evaluated,
there can be no dialogue between the current President and the first
President, as they are in different poles.
"I think both the authorities and the opposition first of all should
have started a dialogue with the people," A. Petrosian said. She also
considers inadmissible the fact that the opposition tries to speak
with the authorities by the language of ultimatums.
Opposing to the deputy, H. Kharatian said that she has an ultimatum to
the authorities and it regards respecting the Constitution, executing
the law.
However, according to her, the current Armenian authorities do not wish
to form a community of citizens living by law. "Unless the authorities
do it, citizens will take to the streets to protect their right,"
she said.