Thursday, 26 May 2011
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan holds “last lesson” for school-leavers
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan welcomed today to the Office of Government 9-11 grade schoolchildren from Ararat marz Masis town’s high school N5, Yerevan secondary schools N150 after Nansen and high school N29 after Margaryan
To begin with, the head of government noted that the government was going to meet in a regular cabinet sitting at the same venue to discuss social-economic issues.
“I shall try to brief you on our government’s ontological principles for some 45 minutes,” Tigran Sargsyan said adding that ontology means a common concept of philosophy of life which cannot be given too many interpretations.
In his words, the government takes account of today’s ever-changing world in developing its programs. “This implies that we should get a definite idea of global processes. We set ourselves the task of getting an insight into the main characteristics of those developments influencing our life and the government’s performance. Here, we managed to outline those 5 pillars to prop up the government’s program subject to National Assembly approval.”
According to the Prime Minister, the first principle consists in keeping pace with most rapid global changes which would have looked inconceivable to our grandparents. “Any single generation is faced up with multiple transformations today, and this is a serious challenge for societies, social-economic processes and individuals who often fail to catch up with this fast-changing world. The scientific revolution and the application of state-of-the-art technologies have considerably changed our way of life. As I was a student in Leningrad, I had to walk to the telephone exchange in order to have a talk with my Yerevan-based parents once a week. In the meantime, owing to today’s advanced technologies we can reach any part of the world any time we wish at very low cost.”
The government was said to be developing its programs just taking account of the aforementioned factor of quick changes. Otherwise the government’s activities will be doomed to failure.
The second key principle is to take account of the ever-shrinking world. Due to the technological progress, contacts between nations keep on increasing every day.
“Different international organizations are being set up like the World Trade Organization to facilitate cross-country contacts. WTO-member States are taking turns at making statements about their intent to lower customs rates in a bid to promote cross-country exchanges. Therefore, the world is getting smaller with growing number of interactions. For instance, Lybian developments are influencing Armenia with increased oil prices in the international markets.”
In Tigran Sargsyan’s words, the 20th century was deemed as one of industrial development with keen competition between the providers of goods and services.
At the same time, the Prime Minister pointed out that being a developed country today does not necessarily mean to be a first-rate producer of goods and services. What matters most today is to generate as much knowledge as possible. “Thus, we can see that the driving force of economy is changing toward learning and knowledge with a corresponding shift in cross-country competition.” The awareness of human beings’ importance and social cohesion were said to be the fourth and fifth principles respectively. These are just the key principles the government relies upon in designing its programs.
After answering the schoolchildren’s questions, the Prime Minister showed them into the government’s conference hall to introduce the recently renovated paintings of Minas Avetisyan.
