| ARMENIA'S PRIORITY IS ECONOMY, SAYS NEW PREMIER | | 11 April 2007, Resource : Turkish Daily News | | | | !ßãĞ `="justify">Armenia's priority is economic development, not human rights improvements, the country's new prime minister said in an interview with The Financial Times on Monday. “Jobs are more important than rights,” said Serge Sargysan, who was promoted to premiership last Wednesday, after the death of the late prime minister Andranik Margaryan from a heart attack last month. “It is hard to talk about democratic and human rights when you need to solve the social and economic needs of the population,” he said to the Financial Times during a visit to Brussels.
A third of the 3 million-strong population of Armenia lives below the poverty line. Sargysan said the Armenian diaspora should get more involved in the country, reminding that only 1 percent of investment came from them.
Sargysan named another priority as concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, which lost Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia in 1994, after a three-year war.
“Turkey - which has been offered talks without conditions - has shown no willingness to compromise” on the Nagorno-Karabagh issue, claimed the article.
Sargysan added that Armenia would remain friendly to Russia and would not support a United States military base in the region.
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