YEREVAN, MARCH 5, NOYAN TAPAN. "Today there is an occasion for thinking for a moment: "whether we learnt lessons after the death of Vazgen Sargsian and our friends perished with him, whether we realize that intolerance, hatred, malice prepare a new ground for new murders, whether we feel responsible for forming an atmosphere of tolerance in RA. I realize well that first of all the government and authorities are responsible for formation of an atmosphere of tolerance, cooperation for the simple reason that we have serious state levers for doing it, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian stated before opening RA government's March 5 sitting. He reminded that today we mark the 50th birth anniversary of former Defence Minister, then Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsian, who was killed as a result of the October 27 crime. According to T. Sargsian, criticism and freedom of expression are necessary for the government to be able to see from outside and to disclose its mistakes and shortcomings. "However when that crticism goes beyond all limits, when we open newspapers and see not criticism, but malicious, false accusations, extreme estimations having nothing in common with reality and having a single goal, to insult a person, we understand that we still have much to do. That malice, intolerance mould new bullets, there will be new murders unless we manage to radically change this atmosphere," the Prime Minister said. He added: "I myself was a representative of radical opposition (National-Democratic Union party: NT) for five years, I consider myself guilty of many things, I apologize to our opponents for our mistakes, for my personal mistakes. We should be tolerant, we should not burn the cooperation bridges." According to T. Sargsian, Armenian people's history lessons are the following: "we make progress only at the moment we manage to ensure cooperation."

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