What should tomorrow’s Armenia look like? More liberal, more democratic than today: we will all answer unanimously. The main political forces, with few exceptions, are in favor of these principles verbally. We often speak of human rights and civil society. The cases of violations are recorded in the media, and those who feel insulted in this respect, make great efforts so that the figures in the West provide appropriate assessments to Armenia. Of course, this can be considered as a major diplomatic and advocacy victory. If the purpose of such figures or parties is to provide international organizations (let’s say, the UN) against Armenia, then we can recommend them to closely cooperate with Turkey and Azerbaijan. Although the probability of success is little, because there are no innocent people even in the West, and the international organizations are well aware of what’s going on and where.
But the infinite love to the West, as well as democracy, liberalism and human rights, glistening from time to time, rests on the general “ideological” background. And they (the “ideas”) have exactly the opposite direction. And as a reminder, let’s mention some of them, liberate our country from the western liberalism diseases, unite around national ideology, the “human rights” concept was invented by Jews and masonneres, no to machinations of international imperialism, and so on and so forth. Perhaps any of opposite principles should be selected, and build the policy from that percpective.
This duality has an objective nature, and is typical almost to all (not just the opposition) political streams. But the most prominent example to this respect is the AR Federation. When it is said that it is a structure that cannot be called a party in the sense of literally classical or western, the members of ARF get offended arguing that parliamentarism is in their blood. When it is said that it is common part for Armenia, one out of 47, they are also offended, claiming that ARF is an anti-Armenian structure, and it is not going to obey any laws of any Armenia. Again, the issue of choice is raised, either to deny, or to adopt certain rules (yes, universal, yes, developed in the West) of the game. And all political forces, the whole of our society should answer this question.
It is a fact that Armenia does not meet given standards.
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It is a fact that we have not yet built a democratic state, as, especially, the authorities sometimes succumb to temptation to resolve the issues in a style of previous regime. But it is also obvious that no one could do it anymore. Hence, irrevocable changes took place.
Aram Abrahamyan, 21.03.1995
