ARMENIA FACES SERIOUS NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE
16:00 / 10.02.2015
We should have seriously thought about the national security and the
development of the country, director Tigran Khzmalyan said, speaking
at a news conference today.
“I am not speaking about the simple North-West contradiction but of
course it has its core significance and our political and economic
election will show whether we will enter the 21st century as a country
or as a nation as till now we had not done it,” Khzmalyan said.
The other speaker of the news conference, leader of National Security
party Garnik Isagulyan agreed that unfortunately Armenia does not
have the place and the role it could really have.
“I have many times stated my opinion, I had been thinking that after
the collapse of the Soviet Union Armenia was to appear in the most
difficult and desperate situation. But our people and our generation
having left the disastrous earthquake behind managed to overcome
this tragedy and win in the imposed Karabakh war. It seemed that
after all it the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
cannot only say what they want but have a serious role in the region
and the world,” he said, stressing that best example for Armenia is
Israel which being smaller country and having less potential declared
its independence in 1948 and in 1967 in 6-day war won five Arab state
surrounding it and enlarged its territory more than thrice. “We too
had such opportunity, Armenia could have bigger chances than Israel.
But after 19 years of our independence in 2013 we signed the agreement
on accession to the Eurasian Economic Union, which of course is a
tragedy,” he said.
The party’s leader said that it was very important for Armenia to be
able to keep balanced stance with the West, East, North, South and
have same level relations with all.
“Unfortunately, in all times, the Armenian authorities have not viewed
the national and state interest as a prior issue,” Isagulyan stressed,
adding that unfortunately Armenia’s national security issue is in
desperate situation and if it continues in this way it is a big
question whether we will be able to keep our state or not.