FOREIGN FORCES MAKE USE OF WEAKNESS OF ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES, VAZGEN MANUKIAN CONSIDERS
Noyan Tapan
Apr 18 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 18, NOYAN TAPAN. “The illegitimacy of the Armenian
authorities and, correspondingly, their weakness becomes beneficial
for the foreign forces as such authorities can be always intimidated
by saying that assisting the opposition we will remove you from
power,” Vazgen Manukian, Chairman of the National-Democratic Union,
declared in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent. According
to him, making use of the weakness of the Armenian authorities the
foreign forces can always demand concessions from them, at that such
concessions they could not get if the authorities were elected by
really a democratic way. As for the positions of the West and, in
particular, the U.S. in connection with the violation of democratic
freedoms in Armenia, according to Vazgen Manukian, the U.S. has two
directions in its foreign policy. The first is that the U.S. really
considers that all countries should become democratic. “This is good
both for these countries and for the U.S. which will feel safe if all
countries are like itself. But, on the other hand, the U.S. has local
problems and the authorities of the kind are very beneficial from
this point of view. I form an impression that in this case Americans
act in Armenia in the very way, we saw the same in Azerbaijan,
too”. V.Manukian emphasized that he and the party headed by him are
against any foreign assistance. “I will not be for if other countries
finance any policy in Armenia, this means to become dependent. We
need this assistance only in one case, for not solving issues through
application of force as this happened in Georgia and in the Ukraine”.