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    MARCH 1 PAGE, RELATIVELY SPEAKING, CAN BE CONSIDERED CLOSED: ARMENIAN MP

    epress.am
    10.06.2011

    Law enforcement agencies and the special parliamentary Commission on
    March 1 had all the possible discussions (regarding the events of Mar.
    1, 2008), Prosperous Armenia MP Vardan Bostanjyan told Epress.am
    on Thursday.

    Weighing in on the resolution adopted by PACE which considers
    the chapter on the March 1 case closed, Bostanjyan said, it's
    understandable that some issues have remained unsolved and some
    questions, unanswered, but "to continue this would mean increasing
    confrontation in our country."

    "At this time, I assume that we're moving toward parliamentary
    elections [set to take place in 2012]. There exists a certain
    understandable tension among political entities, and to season this
    also, especially, with the remaining not yet solved issues of Mar. 1,
    most likely would exacerbate the situation in our country. I also think
    that relatively speaking this page can be considered closed," he said.

    However, he said, there are "many moments" which he would like "to
    be truly disclosed."

    "As for the 10 victims, which are so much of a fact that it's
    impossible... not to talk or think about this phenomenon, they will
    remain. But the Armenian people have always had such types of pages
    in its past history, but I don't think they've taken it and made
    it into their axis to move, to develop. Though it's understandable
    that any imperceptible, unacceptable incident and deed, especially
    if the authorities willingly or unwillingly are mixed up in this-
    historically, it always has to be answered [or, someone will have
    to answer for this]. Particularly, the more total version of this is
    genocide," said Bostanjyan.

    Today, it's not because of genocide recognition that Armenians have to
    claim lands from a powerful country and other things that stem from
    this, Bostanjyan continued, but simply that humanity has to condemn
    the act of genocide, so it doesn't happen in the future.

    Recall, 40 out of 44 PACE delegates voted in favor of the resolution,
    including Armenian delegates Davit Harutyunyan (of the ruling
    Republican Party of Armenia) and Naira Zohrabyan (of the Prosperous
    Armenia party, one of the 3 parties in the governing coalition).

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