Armenian Elite Should Have Single Idea to Unite Society: Prime Minister
18.07.2008,
22:21
Armenia should find the best way to form a single idea among the representatives of society’s elite to gather the people around, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan believes.
YEREVAN, July 18. /ARKA/. Armenia should find the best way to form a single idea among the representatives of society’s elite to gather the people around, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan believes.
“We have no such single idea today dominating in society. Instead, we have plenty of mutually exclusive ideas leading to splits,” the premier told Armenian TV5 channel. According to Sargsyan, only those nations who are able to unite around one single idea usually prove to be successful.
“A good example of this is Germany. In quite a short period of time it was not only able to reconstruct its ruined economy, but it could turn from an aid-receiving country into an aid-rendering country in only 20-30 years. This happened due to the ability of the German people to unite around a single idea guiding their leaders,” the Armenian premier said.
The premier said the modern world has reached the development phase in which spiritual values are put first, one of the priorities considered to be the civilization dialogue.
“If we want a real boom than we must focus on the mentality of the ruling elite in spiritual values rather than in business or management skills,” he emphasized.
Sargsyan also stressed the necessity changing the people’s mentality which is quite a problem in Armenia now.
The premier said the speeches of the representatives of Armenian elite are usually rich in artificial clichés from modern manuals which means they do not quite understand the meaning of their own statements, but use them to please the foreign influential forces rather than the people of Armenia.
“This is a very dangerous phenomenon. Mentality enables us to differentiate between the discussed idea and the form of running the discussion. Unfortunately, people who are responsible for decision making are trying to introduce bookish truths into Armenian society which leads to grave problems,” the premier said.
Sargsyan believes such ideas can be called to life only when we manage to form the elite which would be guiding the people and would itself be guided by these ideas. --0—
“We have no such single idea today dominating in society. Instead, we have plenty of mutually exclusive ideas leading to splits,” the premier told Armenian TV5 channel. According to Sargsyan, only those nations who are able to unite around one single idea usually prove to be successful.
“A good example of this is Germany. In quite a short period of time it was not only able to reconstruct its ruined economy, but it could turn from an aid-receiving country into an aid-rendering country in only 20-30 years. This happened due to the ability of the German people to unite around a single idea guiding their leaders,” the Armenian premier said.
The premier said the modern world has reached the development phase in which spiritual values are put first, one of the priorities considered to be the civilization dialogue.
“If we want a real boom than we must focus on the mentality of the ruling elite in spiritual values rather than in business or management skills,” he emphasized.
Sargsyan also stressed the necessity changing the people’s mentality which is quite a problem in Armenia now.
The premier said the speeches of the representatives of Armenian elite are usually rich in artificial clichés from modern manuals which means they do not quite understand the meaning of their own statements, but use them to please the foreign influential forces rather than the people of Armenia.
“This is a very dangerous phenomenon. Mentality enables us to differentiate between the discussed idea and the form of running the discussion. Unfortunately, people who are responsible for decision making are trying to introduce bookish truths into Armenian society which leads to grave problems,” the premier said.
Sargsyan believes such ideas can be called to life only when we manage to form the elite which would be guiding the people and would itself be guided by these ideas. --0—
