L. ZURABIAN: “CITY HALL HAS MADE AN ILLEGAL BARGAIN”
Support A1+!During a July 21 press conference Serzh Sarkissian made two important discoveries. He said unwilling to start a dialogue with the opposition. Besides, he is not going to meet the public demand to set the political prisoners, says member of the Centre for Popular Movement Levon Zurabian.
Zurabian sees regress in Armenian mass media. TV channels have again been instructed not to televise the opposition. Their news resembles Brezhnev’s propaganda. On the other hand, nothing has been done to reopen A1+.
The government obviously neglects the PACE resolutions and tries to delude the Council of Europe imitating to meet the PACE demands.
The government continues not to authorize opposition rallies. They have stopped releasing political prisoners since the PACE summer session.
The government has no genuine wish to carry out a democratic reform in the country. In the given situation all people can do is to rise to protect their rights. The Center for the Popular Movement appeals to RoA citizens to take part in an opposition rally due on August 1. The rally will be of great importance in light of establishing civil law, democracy and constitutional order in Armenia.
Note, the Centre has applied to Yerevan City Hall to sanction the upcoming rally and march but their application has been turned down. The City Hall has proposed a strange bargain. They promised to sanction the rally near the Matenadaran in case it is not followed by a march. They fear lest the march will show the rebellious mood of the crowd.
“BURYING IN OBLIVION”
“We welcome Serzh Sarkissian’s invitation of Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul to Yerevan. The only problem is that Gul should have been invited by a legitimate president elected by people,” said Levon Zurabian.
Zurabian clarified their stance towards the Armenian-Turkish relation. The Centre of the Popular Movement is for improving bilateral relations without preconditions.
He says it is known that their political team is against including the issue of the genocide in the home political agenda because it is the moral responsibility of Turkey before the humanity. Meanwhile, when the issue is placed at the core of the state policy, the issue becomes a subject of political manipulations. Levon Zurabian thinks Serzh Sarkissian shouldn’t have agreed to the formation of a historians’ commission as his agreement puts the fact of the genocide into question.
In fact, the Armenian side has taken the path of refuting the Armenian Genocide which is inadmissible for us.
