During his meeting with the voters of Ijevan on Saturday RA presidential candidate Serzh Sargsyan promised to win the “most savage” enemy with the help of people, that is poverty, by ensuring that by 2013 the level of poverty in the country will be maximum 10%.
Delivering a speech on the square, the presidential candidate once again confirmed that he pursued a goal of having welfare and protected Armenia in the near future, by way of implementing the program proposed. At the same time, S. Sargsyan made it clear that he couldn’t give unrealizable and false promises that our country will be a paradise in just one year’s time. The RPA Chairman also pointed out the factors preventing our country’ progress. “Our society must have a higher appreciation of mutual love and respect and never admit spite. One can never be guided by spite. We must also be against protectionism and willfulness. We have passed through a lot of ordeals, and the minimum we achieved was being undefeated. We still have to enshrine our victories in documents and do our best not to be forced to resist new tests,” said Sargsyan and added, “Try to remember the beginning of the 1990s. It was when a few people believed in victory. The governmental elite were preaching that the power of Armenia is its weakness. At that time victory and success was only possible due to trust and confidence of people. We must go to vote on February 19 with the same belief. You should vote for the person, who has proved to be worthy and has a clear vision of implementing his platforms and promises. You shouldn’t rely on mere promises. We are against destruction and are for progress, which will bring to the state, where everyone will be happy and honored to live in Armenia.” And on Sunday Serzh Sargsyan was in Kotayk marz. He was accompanied by the governor of Kotayk Kovalenko Shahgeldyan, first deputy-minister of defense of RA Seyran Ohanyan, NA MP Vardan Ayvazyan and the minister of nature protection Aram Harutyunyan. “You have already familiarized yourselves with the goals of almost all the candidates; you have listened to their promises and speeches full of spite and bile and probably – become already bored and disappointed with their black brushes. But I appeal to you not to be disappointed with participating in the elections. You may be disappointed with those who give false promises and the politicians who make bombastic statements. But you mustn’t refuse to vote, because the kind of country we are going to build in future depends on your vote.” Sargsyan characterizes our country as a child who has been almost cured of a grave disease. In order to make the child feel better certain prescription is needed. “It is our responsibility to cure the child. We can even guess what the caprice of the child is.” “We bear responsibility for the complete recovery of the child and know the right prescription for the disease called a ‘transitional period’. And everybody knows the symptoms: bribery, ill governance, protectionism and injustice. All the problems of our country result from ill governance and the imperfection of the state system. It happens at a time when a person who has not even governed a few people immediately becomes the governor of a small country which, however, has a population of millions. Whereas a country’s leader must be experienced, honest, and consistent. We must be able to recover all our losses and return to their homeland all the people who left the country because of corrupt governance and unemployment On February 19 we will vote for our future, the person, who should forward our country and I think the main character of the leader is honesty and fairness. We cannot give fake promises and then say that certain obstacles impeded the fulfillment of the given promises. We cannot linger any more because we have wasted a lot of time. I can say that we have just started to solve the problems. In Yeghvard we were able to invest only 1.5 billion AMD in Yeghvard but this is only the beginning. We have the right to live in a better Armenia. We should do our best to recover the good things we had in past. We should make sure that the people, who have abandoned Armenia in past return to their homeland. Those were the people, who have left the country because of the ungrateful and irresponsible governance and unemployment,” he said. According to Sargsyan during the past 7 years they were able to solve the minimum of the issues. “If we don’t succeed in creating a powerful Armenia we will be late from the development train. In order to build a powerful country a clever society is needed. Science must be the basic means for our country development,” Sargsyan said. In order to have success Sargsyan once again asked for people’s vote and support in order to make the things “right.” “I am sure that you will be able to differ the wet from the dry. I am sure that you will be able to differ the good leader from the bad one. I am sure that you will be able to distinguish the patriots from the actors. Am sure you will be able to choose a person, who is capable of resolving issues and problems of the country,” stated Sargsyan. In Nor Hachn Sargsyan spoke of one of the main issues of the country – unemployment. He said that the diamond production of the country will provide workplaces within the coming 10 months. A great portion of raw diamond was imported to Armenia. Sargsyan assured the thousands of voters who had gathered in the square situated nearby the Mayors’ Office of Charentsavan that they shouldn’t think about Armenia’s future with skepticism, “We cannot build a good Armenia without hope and belief, and there are all the grounds for that. It is just necessary to distinguish things in between. I am sure that you all want to live in a welfare and prosperous Armenia. And no one wishes our country to request help from others and be weak, so us we will not be respected. Therefore, we all must unite our efforts. I will fight for the implementation of my programs, and I am asking for your vote and support. I will fight for rehabilitating all our factories from idleness and strive for building new ones. I will fight for each person to have his/her job, take part in the strengthening of the country and live in a kind of Armenia where everyone will be proud of his/her motherland. I must prove that we are not doomed to living badly; we’ll see the victory of justice on February 19. And we’ll initiate painstaking work on February 20, and every father will be convinced that he is capable of providing the welfare of his family and children.”