“March 1, 2008, was a great tragedy. That should not have happened in Armenia. W have lost years, in all ways, as a result. Let me say something about my role that day. When it was suggested to me to hold that press conference, I agreed for two reasons. The first was my political responsibility as someone in the public eye. Someone had to talk to the people that day,” yesterday stated the former minister of foreign affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan. Let us remember that on March 1, 2008 he was requesting the people to go back home from the streets by threatening to impose a curfew in the country. Yesterday, however, Oskanyan recalled with such accents that it seemed that people should have thanked him for that. “I had done so after putting a very clear condition before the President that day – that I could announced that the president is prepared to enter into dialogue with the opposition, in order to search together for means to come out of that somber situation. I said I have the president’s consent to announce that he is ready for dialogue, and I call on the opposition to help to collectively seek a way out of this very serious situation. On that day, I considered myself an individual intent on preventing further developments. If I believed I’d done something wrong, I would apologize, but I have nothing to apologize for,” he said.
