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01.11.2005
The 15th Anniversary of the Armenian Parliament Solemnly Celebrated
On November 1 a solemn session and festive concert was held at Al. Spendiarian Opera and Ballet National Theatre dedicated to the 15th
anniversary of the Armenian parliament.
The solemn session attended RA President Robert Kocharyan, Garegin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, Artur Baghdasaryan, NA President, Andranik Margaryan, Prime Minister, MPs of the parliaments of all convocations of the newly independent Armenia, parliamentary delegations of about 25 countries, ambassadors, representatives of international organizations, figures of culture and art.
Opening the solemn session NA President Artur Baghdasaryan said:
“Even the longest road begins from the first step.
During the history counting millenniums the Armenian people, as well as all the people of the world won and lost during the wars, occupied and lost territories, established statehood several times and lost them, as well as royal dynasties and capitals. During the history of millenniums a historical experience has been accumulated that annealed our gene and made us such people as we are today. And today they can record in the register book of all our victories: the restoration of the statehood and the re-establishment of independence.
The Republic of Armenia gained its political independence in 1990. And till now our state continues its state building and self-determination in political, as well as economic and historical-cultural spheres.
In comparison with the countries having democratic traditions of hundred years the 15 years of our statehood and democracy are very short time. That’s a short time for the creation of state systems and their formation, and for functioning those systems and giving possibility to get improved in the work. Moreover, that’s a short time for rooting changes in the people’s way of thinking and psychology. But the history can’t stop and wait till we fully find ourselves and join it, the time goes forward inevitably and we don’t have an alternative for democracy, development and reforms.
The activity of the first convocation of the Supreme Council and second, third convocations of the National Assemblies irretrievably entered in the history of our independence and our times.
I would like to express my appreciation to all parliaments of the independent Armenia because they were the ones, who set the legislative bases of the statehood in the political complex and difficult situation.
…Then our heirs will come to estimate and evaluate our work, And our duty is to do it in a way that they won’t do, as we had to do, not to begin correcting the mistakes of the predecessors, but continue the history of our country, people and state on the full stable basic stone.
The historians and sociologists will do their work and after 100 years already they will read the history of the parliaments of Armenia in the textbooks of history, as chronology of the creation and establishment of the statehood. But already today it’s obvious that our force is in the continuity of the regular sequence and traditions of the generations. The phenomenon of unity and solidarity, as it happened in 1988, doesn’t come down from sky, so we create it likewise our ideas, our dreams and our works.
As a President of the third convocation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, I’m proud of ensuring that the parliaments of Armenia during their only 15 years of history have been not only the legislator of independence and democracy, but also the warrant of political stability in the expected and surprising experiences of war and peace.
I’m deeply convinced that we’ve exhausted the time of our mistakes and losses, defeats and failures, and we are already fighting for the truth and achievements, victories and success.
Even the longest road begins from the first step, but even the longest road doesn’t finish with us. And this is the first lesson that our predecessors left us with 15 years of history, and we are left to continue the building of the country, state and statehood.
At the end of my speech I would like to express my deep gratitude to the parliaments of friendly countries and their heads, international parliamentary assemblies and their chairmen for accepting our invitation and participating at the festivities of the 15th
anniversary of the Armenian Parliament.
The National Assembly of Armenia is one of the architects of that process with the people’s election and its vote of confidence with the responsibility of serving for the people’s interests and protection of rights.”
The anniversary of the parliament congratulated Ann-Marie Lizin, Chairman of the Belgian Senate, Vladimir Konoplyov, President of the Belarusian Parliament, Alexander Torshin, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Council of Russia, Nver Mkhitaryan, deputy of Ukrainian Rada, Markku Kosku, Vice Speaker of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunnassa), Česlovas Yuršenas, Deputy Chairman of the Lithuanian Parliament, Inge Lonning, Vice Speaker of the Norwegian Parlaiment, the Storting, Giorgio Surlas, Vice President of the Greek Parliament, Erik Raut, Vice President of the National Assembly of France, and Akob Kasarjian, Deputy of the Lebanese Parliament.
The event was wrapped up with the festive concert.
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