“Authorities have mutilated dignity”
"Armenia took a devious, mean and roundabout path which speaks of the authorities' fear and mutilated dignity," Heritage Party founder Raffi Hovannisian told A1+ when commenting on the parliament speaker's decision to remove Zaruhy Postanjyan from the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
"Our struggle will be ongoing and Mrs. Postanjyan will continue making speeches. I also see some hyporacy here as in her speeches Mrs. Postanjyan raises not only the issues of human rights, deadly clashes of March 1, 2008, Armenian political prisoners, but also dwells on the Armenian Genocide, destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in Djugha and the problems of Artsakh. Let all people who have admitted the Madrid Principles as the country's official political course, who have laid our national security, interests and rights on the altar, be concerned over Armenia's future," said Mr. Hovannisian.
"This is a matter of dignity, a challenge to Armenian citizens and oppositional forces which needn't separate them from others - be it Heritage, Armenian National Congress of Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun.
Our public must rearrange and urge its representatives - parties and deputies - to give up "megalomania" otherwise PACE will sustain our mandates and we shall start blaming the outer forces for settling issues to the detriment of Armenia, while in reality Armenia makes PACE take such a decision with its covert behaviour."
