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HERITAGE PARTY MP URGES PROSECUTOR GENERAL TO TAKE BACK MOTION
TERT.AM
02.10.12
Armenia's prosecutor general should either take back the motion
on involving former foreign minister Vartan Oskanian in a criminal
proceeding on money laundering, or come to parliament with a new motion
to deprive all 131 MPs of immunity, head of Heritage party faction
Ruben Hakobyan said at the discussion in the National Assembly today.
Heritage MP started his speech with a number of questions, particularly
asking who the author of the motion is, what it will give to the
public, whether it is the start of the fight against corruption
or "bodyguard filth". "And finally is Vartan Oskanian symbol of
corruption, making people migrate?"
Ruben Hakobyan said he is bewildered with the assessments voiced during
these days in the speeches of a number of Republican party's MPs.
"I do not understand the stance of the majority, instead of opposing
the petition's entrance on the agenda, they are grounding it stating
that it stems from the interests of the state, National Assembly
and Vartan Oskanian," he stated, adding that the last remark is an
exclusive sample of contemporary Armenian political folklore.
Ruben Hakobyan said the motion is politically motivated and linked
it with the coming presidential elections.
The Heritage faction head said Armenia's NA session hall has a
history of arresting and condemning MPs, going even far than March
1, 2008 when four MPs backing Levon Ter-Petrosyan were deprived of
parliamentary inviolability.
Hakobyan said the first and the cruelest precedent was in 1996 when
the parliament deprived and jailed Vazgen Manukian, Paruyr Hayrikyan,
Davit Vardanyan, him and others.
Ruben Hakobyan said Armenia's tragedy is that the system cruelly
engorges those who once were in the system.
Hakobyan considered Oskanian's case "response to political
ungratefulness." According to him, it is the most right description
of what is happening. "If these guys who voted for us at that time
knew that the boomerang would reach them, leaving 2008 smoky Yerevan
and March 1, would not have voted. The system is engorging all,"
Hakobyan said.
TERT.AM
02.10.12
Armenia's prosecutor general should either take back the motion
on involving former foreign minister Vartan Oskanian in a criminal
proceeding on money laundering, or come to parliament with a new motion
to deprive all 131 MPs of immunity, head of Heritage party faction
Ruben Hakobyan said at the discussion in the National Assembly today.
Heritage MP started his speech with a number of questions, particularly
asking who the author of the motion is, what it will give to the
public, whether it is the start of the fight against corruption
or "bodyguard filth". "And finally is Vartan Oskanian symbol of
corruption, making people migrate?"
Ruben Hakobyan said he is bewildered with the assessments voiced during
these days in the speeches of a number of Republican party's MPs.
"I do not understand the stance of the majority, instead of opposing
the petition's entrance on the agenda, they are grounding it stating
that it stems from the interests of the state, National Assembly
and Vartan Oskanian," he stated, adding that the last remark is an
exclusive sample of contemporary Armenian political folklore.
Ruben Hakobyan said the motion is politically motivated and linked
it with the coming presidential elections.
The Heritage faction head said Armenia's NA session hall has a
history of arresting and condemning MPs, going even far than March
1, 2008 when four MPs backing Levon Ter-Petrosyan were deprived of
parliamentary inviolability.
Hakobyan said the first and the cruelest precedent was in 1996 when
the parliament deprived and jailed Vazgen Manukian, Paruyr Hayrikyan,
Davit Vardanyan, him and others.
Ruben Hakobyan said Armenia's tragedy is that the system cruelly
engorges those who once were in the system.
Hakobyan considered Oskanian's case "response to political
ungratefulness." According to him, it is the most right description
of what is happening. "If these guys who voted for us at that time
knew that the boomerang would reach them, leaving 2008 smoky Yerevan
and March 1, would not have voted. The system is engorging all,"
Hakobyan said.