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CURRENT AUTHORITIES SHOULD LEARN LESSONS FROM PAST

Politics

On Thursday, Christian-Democratic Union leader Khosrov Harutyunyan, speaking at a The First Republic Lessons discussion held in National Press Club said, in his opinion, either in 1918 or in 1990 Armenian people had psychologically been unready for independence.

Had people trusted their leaders they would be ready for independence, Harutyunyan said. In his words, lack of confidence is visible now just as it was in 1918: Armenians are badly in need of just and healthy environment for living.

“We have inherited one harmful phenomenon from 1918: we rely on other nations. It has destructive impact on internal political situation”, Harutyunyan said. “Our authorities are seeking bosses instead of partners”, he added.

Chair of Armenian Arians Union Armen Avetissyan, expressing his opinion, said a single-party system brought the First Armenian Republic to collapse. Today, despite multi-party system, a dictatorship is in fact created in the republic.