The Armenian
National Movement is against the authority, commission of Venice and Ambassadors."The
ANM was the first during the Constitutional referendum in 2003 which boycotted
the proposed amendments and fought against amendments. But now we only declare
about boycott,"- the head of ANM administration Ararat Zurabian answered
to "Aravot’s" this observation. "We need in conditions for active
actions which aren’t provided in our country. We turned to all rectors of State
Institutes of Highest Education asking for meeting with the students to find out
which is the reason of boycott. Either we didn’t get answers or got unreasonable
answers. As a result they refused us". The ARF has also turned to all TV
channels and has been refused, too."There are people in the opposition
whom the TV Companies invite pretending that the opportunity for the opposition
is also provided. Those people with who m the life will be more difficult, don’t
receive invitation",- Mr. Zurabian says.The ANM doesn’t prefer regional
visits for two reasons. First "It is an opportunity for meeting with 1000-2000
people as the authority levers are intensively used for making pressure on the
society." Then " Those meetings even may cause damages. You leave the
region in 1-2 hours but the man must keep living there. You can always find the
way of making pressure on him". Thus the ANM satisfies with declaration about
boycott. At the same time our interlocutor mentions that "It isn’t so effective
in the country like ours". "If the reason are those apprehensions that
the ANM doesn’t join to any format", the answer was the following. "I
astonish from the standpoint of the society that the oppositioners must always
be together. The ANM can be together with ideologically identical power. Political
spectrum must always exist otherwise two powers must be; authority and opposition.
As wide that spectrum is as rich and powerful the society is."We must
inform that the ANM administration spread a declaration which boycotts the process
of the Constitution. The ANM also suspected on the activities of European Institutions."
The ANM expresses its suspicion on the behavior of European institutions, in particularly
on the officials of the Commission of Venice. Their approved document on the one
hand is too far from the necessary qualities of juridical document with its discrepancies
and nonsense and on another hand the made amemdments are directed against the
basic principles declared by them such us the human or citizen right, democracy,
defense of own property, development of free market economy". The ANM also
condemns; "The obvious interference of some Ambassadors and foreign officials
intointernal affairs of our country on the occasion of the Constitution. Such
an attitude offends the people, the people who were the first that stood against
the soviet despotism, became one of the basic power which destroyed it, real9zed
first democratic elections, formed the first democratic state in the post soviet
territory."Nelly Grigorian
