“Kocharyan will be brought to justice in the Hague”
"Robert Kochayan is getting ready to play the role of the culprit," ANC representative David Shahnazaryan told "A1+" today and assured that Kocharyan "must be brought to justice for his crimes in front of the International Court of Justice in the Hague."
"He knows that very well and that is why he was convulsing during his last interview," said Shahnazaryan, adding that Kocharyan is also in panic because the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague has issued orders against one of the leaders of an Arab country and his close ones.
"That country was not a member of the Statute of Rome either and hadn't accepted the jurisdiction of the Court as the authorities claimed. The authorities didn't say that he was not a criminal, but that that didn't refer to Armenia. It didn't refer to Libya either, but...," said David Shahnazaryan.
Talking about the inter-political situation in Armenia, David Shahnazaryan noted that snap elections were inevitable and assured that they would even favor khanates. "Snap elections will be in the interests of the people and the authorities of not only Armenia, but Nagorno-Karabakh as well."
Shahnazaryan mentioned that in two days, the ANC would announce the members of the delegation that will be leading negotiations with the authorities.
One of the journalists asked Shahnazaryan whether there would be political prisoners if Levon Ter-Petrosyan were elected, referring to previous persecutions against ARF members. In response, David Shahnazaryan said the ARF members were criminals and clarified that he referred to current prisoners whom he had given sanctions for different crimes and who were in prison even after the change of the ruling regime.
"This means that there was certain legitimacy. As for head of the ARF faction Vahan Hovhannisyan and the other MPs who were arrested and released during Robert Kocharyan's term in office, their issue should be addressed to Serzh Sargsyan since they were arrested by the latter's order when he was the country's national security official. Hovhannisyan and his partisans should settle all issues with Serzh Sargsyan," said Shahnazaryan, alluding that the Dashnaktsutiun was part of the ruling coalition during Serzh Sargsyan's term in office.
