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UNDER KOCHARYAN'S PRESSURE
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country23202.html
16:45:12 - 02/09/2011
Wikileaks leaked the letter of U.S. deputy ambassador to Armenia
Joseph Pennington to the U.S. Department of State of March 7, 2008
which reports about the talk between embassy's workers and member of
the Constitutional Court of Armenia Judge Valeri Poghosyan.
Pennington notes that Valeri Poghosyan in the night of March 6 secretly
turned to the U.S. Embassy to have a secret talk in his house.
The issue was related to the appeal of first president Levon
Ter-Petrosyan to the Constitutional Court with which he demanded to
declare invalid the results of the 2008 elections.
The cable runs that Poghosyan determined his wish to have a talk by
the fact that he knows "whom the U.S. supports".
According to the cable, Poghosyan said that he had received numerous
calls from a person who presented as the head of the staff of
the president Robert Kocharyan with the demand to present to the
presidential office. But he laughed and ignored the calls. He also
said that he was even threatened that his brother would be dismissed
if he did not answer the calls.
The document runs that Poghosyan was unable to take part in the
hearings of the case because he was ill, but "he assured that even
if he was healthy, he would not take part in them".
He also said that one of the judges to the case Kim Balayan cooperated
with the authorities because his son Tigran Balayan was appointed
Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He admitted that if pressure from the office of the president lacked,
the greater part of the judges were inclined to issue a verdict in
favor of Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
Poghosyan said "total autocracy" is present in Armenia where it is
impossible to solve issues through a legal way.
He also said, according to the revealed cable, that the authorities
were so shameless that they threatened to dismiss him, though they
had no legal ground.
Workers of the embassy asked Poghosyan about the possibility of
unpublished deaths on March 1 and the rumors that army forces from
Karabakh were taken to Yerevan, Poghosyan answered that "these rumors
are not totally ungrounded".
In the end of the document, Pennington wrote that they have no ground
to confirm the accusations of Judge Poghosyan, but the fact that
an Armenian high ranking official says such things, already means
something. Poghosyan was appointed Judge during Ter-Petrosyan's
tenure in 1995 and since he did not hide his political position,
the recent events are possible to have influenced on him.
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/country23202.html
16:45:12 - 02/09/2011
Wikileaks leaked the letter of U.S. deputy ambassador to Armenia
Joseph Pennington to the U.S. Department of State of March 7, 2008
which reports about the talk between embassy's workers and member of
the Constitutional Court of Armenia Judge Valeri Poghosyan.
Pennington notes that Valeri Poghosyan in the night of March 6 secretly
turned to the U.S. Embassy to have a secret talk in his house.
The issue was related to the appeal of first president Levon
Ter-Petrosyan to the Constitutional Court with which he demanded to
declare invalid the results of the 2008 elections.
The cable runs that Poghosyan determined his wish to have a talk by
the fact that he knows "whom the U.S. supports".
According to the cable, Poghosyan said that he had received numerous
calls from a person who presented as the head of the staff of
the president Robert Kocharyan with the demand to present to the
presidential office. But he laughed and ignored the calls. He also
said that he was even threatened that his brother would be dismissed
if he did not answer the calls.
The document runs that Poghosyan was unable to take part in the
hearings of the case because he was ill, but "he assured that even
if he was healthy, he would not take part in them".
He also said that one of the judges to the case Kim Balayan cooperated
with the authorities because his son Tigran Balayan was appointed
Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He admitted that if pressure from the office of the president lacked,
the greater part of the judges were inclined to issue a verdict in
favor of Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
Poghosyan said "total autocracy" is present in Armenia where it is
impossible to solve issues through a legal way.
He also said, according to the revealed cable, that the authorities
were so shameless that they threatened to dismiss him, though they
had no legal ground.
Workers of the embassy asked Poghosyan about the possibility of
unpublished deaths on March 1 and the rumors that army forces from
Karabakh were taken to Yerevan, Poghosyan answered that "these rumors
are not totally ungrounded".
In the end of the document, Pennington wrote that they have no ground
to confirm the accusations of Judge Poghosyan, but the fact that
an Armenian high ranking official says such things, already means
something. Poghosyan was appointed Judge during Ter-Petrosyan's
tenure in 1995 and since he did not hide his political position,
the recent events are possible to have influenced on him.