“ZHARANGUTIUN” WILL BACK OPPOSITIONISTS ON JUNE 20
Support A1+!“Being an opposition we have always participated and will participate in the oppositions’ rallies. We are to attend the rallies and we think it wise to have an elaborate strategy of partnership,” political scientist, Zharangutiun MP Stepan Safarian said in reply to A1+.
He thinks the authorities should sanction the June 20 rally. Moreover, they must ensure the participants’ security, as “the authorities will have to admit responsibility in case any incident is provoked during the peaceful march. The constitution stipulates that the state must enable people to exercise their rights. There are no grounds to assume that the opposition’s steps endanger our national security.”
While speaking of the NA hearings on the Ombudsman’s special report, Safarian said: “The Prosecutor General was obviously telling a lie. He didn’t give answer to many questions arousing concern among people. The National Assembly mainly discussed whether the issues raised in the report were within the Ombudsman’s competence and whether Armen Harutiunian hadn’t excelled his powers. They were to have discussed the report and not the Ombudsman’s powers. Besides, the Prosecutor General skillfully hid that the law-enforcement bodies had been assigned to “vacate” Liberty Square on March 1.”
Safarian says the policemen had recorded all events which may help disclose many facts.
Safarian divides the authorities into two groups. The first group headed by David Harutiunian is interested in the discussions of the PACE recommendations while the other at the head of Tigran Torossian “lets fate take its course.”
“None of the recommendations has been carried out yet. I think that the terms of the implementation will be extended till September. Meanwhile our delegates will be deprived of the right of vote in the structure.”
The political scientist says that the National Assembly will consider Zharangutiun’s proposals on the Law on “Meetings, marches, demonstrations and rallies” in its forthcoming sitting. “We shall see whether NA Speaker Tigran Torossian is ready to carry out at least two recommendations of PACE resolution 1609.”
“SERZH SARKISSIAN CANNOT SPEAK FOR PEOPLE”
“Unless the political crisis in the country is surmounted no one can have great expectations from the Presidents’ meeting. The meeting will hardly promote the Karabakh conflict regulation,” Safarian said with regard to today’s meeting of Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sarkissian in St. Petersburg.
The Zharangutiun MP is confident that today Serzh Sarkissian cannot speak for the Armenians unless the crisis is overcome.
