ANC TO PARTICIPATE IN WORK OF FACT-FINDING GROUP IF IT HAS ENOUGH POWERS
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian National Congress (ANC)
will participate in the work of the fact-finding group on March 1
events, if this group has the respective powers, Arman Musinian,
spokesman for the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian, said on
October 16. According to him, in particular, the group should be given
an opportunity to question some high-ranking officials.
A. Musinian reminded that from the very start the opposition proposed
setting up a commission on inquiry into the March 1 events which is
composed of an equal number of representatives of the authorities and
the opposition but the authorities rejected that proposal. As for the
current fact-finding group, A. Musinian said that it was the West's
pressure that made the authorities give consent for its creation.
A. Musinian expressed an opinion that the fact-finding group should
have enough powers in order not to disappoint the society which was
actually done by the parliamentary ad hoc committee into inquiry of the
March 1-2 events. He said that in the past few months the indicated
committee did nothing, except for covering up the facts.
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian National Congress (ANC)
will participate in the work of the fact-finding group on March 1
events, if this group has the respective powers, Arman Musinian,
spokesman for the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian, said on
October 16. According to him, in particular, the group should be given
an opportunity to question some high-ranking officials.
A. Musinian reminded that from the very start the opposition proposed
setting up a commission on inquiry into the March 1 events which is
composed of an equal number of representatives of the authorities and
the opposition but the authorities rejected that proposal. As for the
current fact-finding group, A. Musinian said that it was the West's
pressure that made the authorities give consent for its creation.
A. Musinian expressed an opinion that the fact-finding group should
have enough powers in order not to disappoint the society which was
actually done by the parliamentary ad hoc committee into inquiry of the
March 1-2 events. He said that in the past few months the indicated
committee did nothing, except for covering up the facts.