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  • #51
    What are the requirements that qualify an individual for political offices in Hyeastan? Would a spyurkahye be able to hold offices?

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    • #52
      For parliament you must prove that you have been in the country for the past 5 years. And for president you must prove you have been in the country for 10. And of course citizenship.

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      • #53
        Well, Oskanian condemned the attacks on the journalists, and blamed BOTH the authorities and the opposition for the violence.

        And this was off a1plus.am, who hates anything done by ministers usually.

        Also, don't overlook the fact that he is the FM. He has to worry about the country's appearance on the world stage. If the USA starts circulating rumors about total carnage in Armenia, and Oskanian does not set the record straight, he wouldn't be doing his job.

        As for Baghdassarian, I had spoken about him earlier in the year. He does seem like a very good man. Baghdassarian, Oskanian and Hovanissian are people that I would definitely like to have in the next government.

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        • #54
          Originally posted by dusken
          What are the requirements that qualify an individual for political offices in Hyeastan? Would a spyurkahye be able to hold offices?
          Raffi Hovanissan, past FM, and Vartan Osganian, present FM are both spurkahyes. I'm not even sure if Raffi H. had armenian citizenship back then. So was Jirair Libaridian, advisor to Ter-Petrosyan, who himself was born in Syria, but whose family had "nerkaghtadz" ever since he was 2 years old or so.

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          • #55
            [QUOTE=Baron Dants]

            As for Baghdassarian, I had spoken about him earlier in the year. [QUOTE]

            i am honestly jealous. how did you get the opportunity?

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            • #56
              Man we need that one person that unites everyone, like a haig nahabed, like a sasountzi tavit. I get chills thinking of what our nation can become, yet get so depressed seeing what it is.

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              • #57
                [QUOTE=TigranJamharian][QUOTE=Baron Dants]

                As for Baghdassarian, I had spoken about him earlier in the year.

                i am honestly jealous. how did you get the opportunity?
                I had spoken ABOUT him. Not TO him.

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                • #58
                  haha. oh man i read so quickly. that would be really cool if i got a chance to talk to someone like that though

                  and dstyle jan i feel exactly the same.

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                  • #59
                    Next time I go to Armenia (probably 2005), I'll DEFINITELY get my uncle to arrange a meeting for me with Vartan Oskanian. I was kinda disappointed that I didn't get to meet him last summer. Oh well.

                    As for the one man to unite them all. It won't happen, and it's not even necessary. We NEED an opposition. The only problem is, neither the authorities nor the opposition have anybody's trust. For what I care, government and opposition can disagree on every bloody subject. As long as they follow democratic procedures and actually make their decisions in parliament in a respectful and orderly way, we will be very well off already..

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                    • #60
                      You know Richard Hovannisian said something wise before closing his last lecture last quarter. He said essentially that the leaders in Armenia haven't realized that if they eat, to at least give some to the people. Notice he didn't say to stop eating, since he knows whoever sits on the throne will eat. This was after we talked about Armenia's independence, the diaspora, and the demographic decline.
                      Achkerov kute.

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