John Evans: Armenia Is On Right Way

JOHN EVANS: ARMENIA IS ON RIGHT WAY

Noyan Tapan
Sept 07 2006

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 7, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia is on the right way and
its future is democracy, John Evans, the U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary who finished his mission to Armenia, mentioned in
the interview to the Public Television. In the Ambassador’s words,
Armenia has all the main preconditions for becoming the leading
democratic state of the region, but there is no progress without
retreats. John Evans believed that creation and re-creation of
democracy is everyday work for all countries. And for this reason,
in the Ambassador’s words, the U.S. envisages programs which will
help Armenia to strengthen its democracy. The American diplomate also
explained that democracy is not only free and just elections, though
it’s one of the main elements: democracy is supremacy of the law as
well, independence of the judicial system, power and activity of press.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS