During the meeting with representatives of the society, authorities and the clergy, President Serzh Sargsyan has made a statement concerning the events overnight July 30, viewing the latter as the greatest blunder ever.
“I thank our journalists and reporters for their dedicated work and for working for a bloodless resolution of the situation. I also apologize to the journalists for the events overnight July 30, which is our greatest blunder, and will never happen again. Conclusions will, certainly, be made. I also want these events to have no subconscious impact on the freedom of your work.”
The President has also expressed gratitude to political figures, stating:
“I express gratitude to all political figures who have manifested themselves as true political and state figures, from the very start comprehending the events as unacceptable. Unlike a few short-sighted, these people have a gist where the line of political competitiveness ends and starts the security of Homeland. Critical situations often become litmus tests, singling out mature ones from the short-sighted and opportunists. At this stage our goal is also to form the authorities in full national accord, in which issues will be solved under a wide consensus. The constitutional reforms aimed exactly the same: to create a base for the formation of such authorities. A government of national unity is not about a lost one who is trying to make his way to a higher position; it is about the widest possible distribution and sharing of political responsibility, and we have already provided an entire institutional base for it. I state with confidence that only months later we will have this kind of a government, this kind of authorities.
We follow that route and that route is about political forces and political figures. Once again I am stating that it’s about political figures but not about those who follow the route of armed terrorism and those who support them. “
