RA FOREIGN MINISTER BELIEVES THAT HIS OCCUPYING THAT POST FOR TEN
YEARS IS ENOUGH
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Armenia Vartan Oskanian believes that his occupying that post for
ten years is enough.
"I can say with confidence that the Foreign Minister must be changed
in ten years, and a new person must be," the Minister said in the
interview to the "Haykakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time) daily. The
10th year of V.Oskanian’s officiating will be on the day of the 2007
parliamentary elections. Mentioning that it would not be right to be
a minister for longer than 10 years, V.Oskanian assured that he has
no striving for remaining on that post. Responding the question of
"Haykakan Zhamanak" if it means that it is the time for V.Oskanian’s
becoming the president, the Minister said: "No, I did not see anything
like that, I have not decided yet what may next deeds will be, but
to remain as a minister for the next five years as well, I thing that
it will not be right."
In V.Oskanian’s words, he has not made a decision yet about his next
deeds after the parliamentary elections. "I did not decide as today
the political field is very changeable, it is necessary to wait, to
see what developments will take place, I’ll decide my role in those
new developments," the Minister said, adding: "I clarified one thing
for me that I want see a normal state, I want live with my family,
children in a normal state. I’ll work for it, I’ll struggle for it
but what displays that struggle will have, what appearance will get,
the time will show it." In V.Oskanian’s words, there is a number
of problems in Armenia today about which "one must speak opener"
and the solution of which is important. He, particularly, mentioned
three of them: one must cure the political field, must liquidate the
authorities-society bar, that is, "lack of mutual trust," and the
third, growth of effeciency of the government’s activity must be.