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HAYRIKYAN KEEPS BLAMING RUSSIA FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER
TERT.AM
16:08 ~U 05.02.13
Presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikyan thinks the assassination
attempt against him may have been perpetrated by Russian forces
seeking to spoil the Armenia-Russia partnership.
The candidate's earlier statement blaming straightforwardly the
Russian imperialism for the gun attack had sparked criticism by the
Russian media and officials, who considered his words a provocation.
Speaking at a Tuesday news conference, where he had made a sudden
appearance from hospital, the candidate said the authors of such
criticism are also representatives of the Russian imperialism.
"The same provokers now spead such statements. I have received phone
calls from four Russian colleagues. I appreciate the positive side
of what is Russian. We must never forget that the Armenian nation the
first to launch a self-determination movement in the Soviet despotic
regime. And it was the Russian imperialists under the leadership of
[Mikhail] Gorbachov, that expelled Hayrikyan to Ethiopia then,"
he said.
Hayrikyan later addressed a recent statement by Nikolay Borduzha,
the Collective Security Treaty Organization's secretary general,
who questioned the attempted assassination scenario. "So Mr. Borduzha
either possesses data which he hasn't reported to our National Security
[Council] or he is a representative of the Russian imperialism. It
would be more decent of Borduzha to ask [NSC Secretary] Artur
Baghdasaryan about that, although I am not supposed to teach him
things," he said.
Hayrikyan disagreed to the opinions that his gunman was not a
professional. "Just to think of a bullet penetrating through your body
a from 25 cm distance and leaving you alive. I survived, thanks to
God's will. But that doesn't mean the opposite side did a wrong thing.
Angels prevented [my death], so I still have to be useful," he said.
TERT.AM
16:08 ~U 05.02.13
Presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikyan thinks the assassination
attempt against him may have been perpetrated by Russian forces
seeking to spoil the Armenia-Russia partnership.
The candidate's earlier statement blaming straightforwardly the
Russian imperialism for the gun attack had sparked criticism by the
Russian media and officials, who considered his words a provocation.
Speaking at a Tuesday news conference, where he had made a sudden
appearance from hospital, the candidate said the authors of such
criticism are also representatives of the Russian imperialism.
"The same provokers now spead such statements. I have received phone
calls from four Russian colleagues. I appreciate the positive side
of what is Russian. We must never forget that the Armenian nation the
first to launch a self-determination movement in the Soviet despotic
regime. And it was the Russian imperialists under the leadership of
[Mikhail] Gorbachov, that expelled Hayrikyan to Ethiopia then,"
he said.
Hayrikyan later addressed a recent statement by Nikolay Borduzha,
the Collective Security Treaty Organization's secretary general,
who questioned the attempted assassination scenario. "So Mr. Borduzha
either possesses data which he hasn't reported to our National Security
[Council] or he is a representative of the Russian imperialism. It
would be more decent of Borduzha to ask [NSC Secretary] Artur
Baghdasaryan about that, although I am not supposed to teach him
things," he said.
Hayrikyan disagreed to the opinions that his gunman was not a
professional. "Just to think of a bullet penetrating through your body
a from 25 cm distance and leaving you alive. I survived, thanks to
God's will. But that doesn't mean the opposite side did a wrong thing.
Angels prevented [my death], so I still have to be useful," he said.