Elite Must Be Primary Target of Crackdown on Corruption
22.07.2008,
03:09
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan thinks the elite must be primary target of the crackdown on corruption.
YEREVAN, July 21. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan thinks the elite must be primary target of the crackdown on corruption.
“This is the only honest way. Substantial institutional changes are needed in all sectors. These changes will take much time, honesty and devotion”, the premier said in Tsakhkadzor at his meeting with To Haik fund volunteers.
The volunteers are now in Our Lady of Armenia camp, where 198 children from low-income families of Armenian provinces of Lori and Shirak as well as Javakhk (Georgia) are spending their holidays now.
Sargsyan said that the results of the reformation will be visible very soon.
Asked why the crackdown on corruption hadn’t been launched earlier, the premier pointed out some obstacles.
He singled out Soviet Union’s collapse as one of these circumstances. He said that the collapse destroyed many economic institutions, and the society couldn’t organize its life.
“We had many problems, irregular supply of bread, butter and energy. War with Karabakh added a great deal to the then turmoil”, he said adding that the nation had to win that war to survive.
The prime minister said that all the obstacles have been overcome and now people’s mentality must be altered to rid the country of corruption that blighted the society in recent years.
Sargsyan said that corruption in Armenia flourished because of behavior of those people who had access to certain levers and abused them.-0---
“This is the only honest way. Substantial institutional changes are needed in all sectors. These changes will take much time, honesty and devotion”, the premier said in Tsakhkadzor at his meeting with To Haik fund volunteers.
The volunteers are now in Our Lady of Armenia camp, where 198 children from low-income families of Armenian provinces of Lori and Shirak as well as Javakhk (Georgia) are spending their holidays now.
Sargsyan said that the results of the reformation will be visible very soon.
Asked why the crackdown on corruption hadn’t been launched earlier, the premier pointed out some obstacles.
He singled out Soviet Union’s collapse as one of these circumstances. He said that the collapse destroyed many economic institutions, and the society couldn’t organize its life.
“We had many problems, irregular supply of bread, butter and energy. War with Karabakh added a great deal to the then turmoil”, he said adding that the nation had to win that war to survive.
The prime minister said that all the obstacles have been overcome and now people’s mentality must be altered to rid the country of corruption that blighted the society in recent years.
Sargsyan said that corruption in Armenia flourished because of behavior of those people who had access to certain levers and abused them.-0---
