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YEREVAN, MAY 18, ARMENPRESS. We have two battle fronts today – one being the external enemy, and the other the domestic enemy, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said in his remarks during the newly elected Parliament’s first session.
“We know the external enemy well, we know the effective ways and methods of fighting against it. Glory and honor to our fallen soldiers and officers, glory and honor to our soldiers and officers guarding the borders today”, the President said.
According to the President, the internal enemy is no less dangerous than the external enemy.
“The domestic enemy, are some mentalities and occurrences. The most dangerous of these occurrences is perhaps injustice. Injustice is evil for any state, a disease which weakens and exhausts the state, which eliminates the faith for the future, weakens love for the state, and repulses thousands of its children. Therefore, more than ever, today we have another battlefront, where victory is no less important. Today we declare a new phase of war to injustice.
I address everyone here – each of us must fight for justice with the same devotion and diligence with which it is fighting or has fought for our country’s independence and security of our borders.
Justice must be the lively idea which our children must nourish from, by which our public officials must be guided and by which our judges must live.
Each of us must protect justice at least the same way that our soldiers are protecting our border. Deserting the border has been viewed as treason at all times. The injustice of anyone, moreover of a judge, must be considered as treason for tomorrow’s fatherland.
Perhaps my speech turned out a bit emotional, but maybe it wasn’t possible another way – we can’t drive this evil away from us only through good laws, just like we can’t be treated only with medication, if we don’t believe in our strength, our treatment and don’t face the evil which is exhausting us with our entire inner powers”, the President said.