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http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2012/12/17/listening-device
07:40 PM | DECEMBER 17, 2012 | POLITICS
The practice of publishing bugged political conversation was started
in Armenia five years ago. Leader of the Country of law Party (OEK)
Arthur Baghdasaryan was the first to be secretly recorded in 2007 in
a Yerevan cafe before the parliamentary election.
In the recorded conversation, Baghdasaryan was persuading a British
diplomat to give a negative assessment of the parliamentary election
to be held in the country in May of the same year. The recording was
immediately libeled as black PR and no one charged for the secret
recording. In its turn, the National Security Service denied its
connection with the wiretapping and publication of the conversation.
Robert Kocharyan (Armenia's President from 1998 till 2008) called
Arthur Baghdasaryan a parricide. The same Baghdasaryan today is
holding the position of National Security Council Secretary.
The teammates of Armenia's first president and leader of the opposition
Armenian National Congress were the next in Armenia to be secretly
bugged in 2008. Following the deadly post-election clashes of March
1, 2008, a covert recording with the conversation between Alexander
Arzumanyan [head of Ter-Petrosyan's election headquarters] and Nikol
Pashinyan [member of the headquarters] was put into circulation. The
recording was later attached to the material on March 1 clashes where
the Procurator's Office tried to shift the responsibility for the ten
victims on Arzumanyan and Pashinyan as its spokesperson had earlier
announced that the police had not open fire at the demonstrators.
Today the opposition press and political forces blame Robert Kocharyan
and Serzh Sargsyan for the March 1 tragic events.
In the newly-wiretapped recording HAK Coordinator Levon Zurabyan and
ex-Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian are discussing the possibility
of fielding their candidates in the upcoming presidential election.
The National Security Service has again denied its connection to the
covert recording which has caused a stir among political circles and
on online social networking sites. Many say the recording aims to
quarrel Levon Zurabyan, Nikol Pashinyan and Hrant Bagratyan. During
the conversation, Zurabyan says that if HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan
decided not to run for president himself, and the opposition bloc was
discussing the possibility of fielding former Prime Minister Hrant
Bagratyan as a candidate instead. No one cares to ask why opposition
figures are bugged and who is wiretapping ordered by. The question
still remains unanswered.
http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2012/12/17/listening-device
07:40 PM | DECEMBER 17, 2012 | POLITICS
The practice of publishing bugged political conversation was started
in Armenia five years ago. Leader of the Country of law Party (OEK)
Arthur Baghdasaryan was the first to be secretly recorded in 2007 in
a Yerevan cafe before the parliamentary election.
In the recorded conversation, Baghdasaryan was persuading a British
diplomat to give a negative assessment of the parliamentary election
to be held in the country in May of the same year. The recording was
immediately libeled as black PR and no one charged for the secret
recording. In its turn, the National Security Service denied its
connection with the wiretapping and publication of the conversation.
Robert Kocharyan (Armenia's President from 1998 till 2008) called
Arthur Baghdasaryan a parricide. The same Baghdasaryan today is
holding the position of National Security Council Secretary.
The teammates of Armenia's first president and leader of the opposition
Armenian National Congress were the next in Armenia to be secretly
bugged in 2008. Following the deadly post-election clashes of March
1, 2008, a covert recording with the conversation between Alexander
Arzumanyan [head of Ter-Petrosyan's election headquarters] and Nikol
Pashinyan [member of the headquarters] was put into circulation. The
recording was later attached to the material on March 1 clashes where
the Procurator's Office tried to shift the responsibility for the ten
victims on Arzumanyan and Pashinyan as its spokesperson had earlier
announced that the police had not open fire at the demonstrators.
Today the opposition press and political forces blame Robert Kocharyan
and Serzh Sargsyan for the March 1 tragic events.
In the newly-wiretapped recording HAK Coordinator Levon Zurabyan and
ex-Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian are discussing the possibility
of fielding their candidates in the upcoming presidential election.
The National Security Service has again denied its connection to the
covert recording which has caused a stir among political circles and
on online social networking sites. Many say the recording aims to
quarrel Levon Zurabyan, Nikol Pashinyan and Hrant Bagratyan. During
the conversation, Zurabyan says that if HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan
decided not to run for president himself, and the opposition bloc was
discussing the possibility of fielding former Prime Minister Hrant
Bagratyan as a candidate instead. No one cares to ask why opposition
figures are bugged and who is wiretapping ordered by. The question
still remains unanswered.