18 May 2006

THE PROJECTS OF THE AUTHORITY

The free deputy and politician Hmayak Hovhannisian  declared about the coming projects of the authority in the interview yesterday. Three «quasi political” powers, “Republican”, “Prosperous Armenia”, “Unity in favor of Armenia” will constitute majority in the parliament in 2007. In the result of those elections Serge Sargsian becomes the Prime Minister, Andranik Margarian becomes the NA chairman. Serge Sargsian wins in the presidential elections in 2008 and Robert Kocharian is appointed the Prime minister. If nowadays situation continues during a year, Mr. Hovhannisian's described scenario
will come true.

AMERICAN STYLE
THE MISTERY OF OPTIMISM

The US State Secretary representative Mathew Brayza speaking on the possibilities of the NK conflict settlement in his speech in the Congress on 16 of May declared that the parties were close to the agreement than it was in the past. “The US positively marks the possibilities of reaching agreement between Armenia and Russia”, the American diplomat stressed mentioning time limits of that optimism. That is “next some weeks”, during of which by the State Department official’s words “the governments of both countries must be brave and overcome discrepancies».
Let's record a thing; a lot of declarations of different American officials make us change the classic meanings of some words and expressions. The most descriptive is perhaps «optimism». That quality resides at Americans and we should argue that they don’t loose their optimism even in the most difficult situations of the life and they always smile. It is righter; according to a lot of psychologists optimistic mood helps to bear the difficulties. Anyway we can't ignore that from time to time publicly expressing «optimism» means a/ that word has changed its meaning and is used by other meaning, b/ there are serious reasons for optimism about which we aren't informed enough.
The possibility of the first version isn't so big. So we have to examine the second version. But in that case we face to another American quality, pragmatism. A thing, which isn't combined with optimism. Or maybe Brayza combines it.

Tigran Avetisian