Edmon Marukyan: Our authorities are scared of different opinions
Edmon Marukyan, MP from the YELK(Way Out) faction spoke about the Armenia-Diaspora Pan-Armenian Conference and why The YELK faction was not invited Today Armenia-Diaspora Pan-Armenian Conference entitled "Mutual Trust, Unity and Responsibility" starts in Yerevan. According to RA Ministry of Diaspora, nearly 1400 Armenians from 70 countries are going to participate in the Conference. But the weirdest thing is that, under the name of mutual trust and unanimity, Armenia's unhandy authorities did not invite a single representative of the YELK Alliance, whereas, social-economic, foreign-policy and other issues of Pan-Armenian significance are going to be discussed at the conference. You ask why they did not invite them. The reason is that our authorities are scared of different opinions and alternative approaches. Thus, Pan-Armenian event is being organized in Yerevan, where parliamentary opposition is not invited, because the authorities are afraid that we will expose the bankruptcy and present different approaches to development of Armenia. As a result, the authorities have even brought the Diaspora to monopoly, misleading many Diaspora representatives by organizing a Pan-Armenian event and leaving those outside their narrow circle. Thus, Armenia-Diaspora Pan-Armenian Forum, under the conditions of mutual mistrust, fake unity and absolute irresponsibility, is held on September 18-20 in Armenia .
