Suren Abrahamyan, a former Minister of Internal Affairs and a member of the Republic Party political council, says
“Frankly speaking, my approach toward this issue is absolutely different. The policy of sating “the hell with Aliyev” or “shame on the Hungarian government” or throwing tomatoes is a thing that will give absolutely nothing. And I didn’t like that rhetoric, that aggressive attitude. People who whistle before going to the bathroom in their own homes not to be afraid nearly declared a war on Azerbaijan,” yesterday Suren Abrahamyan, a former Minister of Internal Affairs and a member of the Republic Party political council, said this in response to our question how adequate and right the response of our government and president to the deal between Hungary and Azerbaijan on extraditing Ramil Safarov was. According to him,
“It was an alert to our government, our society, first of all, Serzh Sargsyan, the president of the country; he will not be able to meet any external challenge with his rotten system of government, with his incompetent implementers. One should draw conclusions, because we live under conditions of unfinished, unconcluded war and all this showed that we must be ready for everything. We must be ready with normal, rational people ready for fundamental systemic changes with whom our system of government should be reinforced. Otherwise, we will be at a loose end.”
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Suren Abrahamyan assessed the proposals to cease the negotiation process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as ridiculous, “On the contrary, there will be no solution to the issue by that. We must never give such a solution to our most important issue. One should move toward peace with decisive steps, not by cursing this or that person or beating the chest, but by correcting one’s own mistakes. They must understand the reality. I don’t want to say impolite or strong words about our attitude, this country must understand that it must oppose all that by being active, having a strong state system, not a strong government, but a strong state. Not throwing tomatoes or swinging swords, but considering our mistakes, correcting, fixing them should be the main task.”
We inquired whether the decision of the president to suspend diplomatic relations with Hungary was made in a rush, whether it was a puerile step as many people assessed it, Mr. Abrahamyan said that he didn’t have the whole information, that was why he didn’t want to make an assessment of that step, “Perhaps, it was appropriate, I don’t know, but regarding the other issues, I didn’t see the realization of one’s own mistake, which is the most important thing in our game, i.e. to draw conclusions. I call for the government’s soberness, in order that they understand that one cannot govern a country this way, according to this philosophy, this psychology. It is not like they can only rig elections, is it? At the end of the day, they are people who are responsible for a certain area; they could have prevented being a bit more farsighted, couldn’t they? We had abilities in that regard; we could have just once used the capabilities of the Diaspora, couldn’t we? Instead of come home, I don’t know, come and water your grandpa’s grave pointless projects, we could have once mobilized the Diaspora and Hungary would have had no chance to cut such an unfair deal. Unfortunately, the whole philosophy of the government with its implementers is wrong to begin with. Look at today’s officials, those who have real power and not what we have. The whole country is divided into prison gang leaders who don’t have intellect at all, haven’t even read one-blotter-thick book in their lives. Do you want them to build a normal country and meet the external challenges?”
In response to our observation that our government had known in advance about the deal, Mr. Abrahamyan said, “If I knew that they work hard, I would say it’s OK; the same applies to the National Security Council. They could have appointed just two officials to deal with that case day and night. I read the piteous cry of the counselor to help him; he couldn’t resist that on his own. One should have had a bit of prudence.”
HRIPSIME JEBEJYAN
