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Armenian parliament leader in dilemma - newspaper
October 19, 2013 | 08:45
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan
is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Following the well-known scandal inStrasbourg by opposition Heritage
Party NA Faction Secretary Zaruhi Postanjyan who is also a member of
NA delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE), Abrahamyan had announced that he will remove her from the
delegation.
But this plan of his cannot be implemented without noise, Zhoghovurd
daily reports.
`And, now, the [ruling Republican Party] RPA members are attempting to
develop legally invulnerable mechanisms [to this end].
`Abrahamyan has assigned this job to Davit Harutyunyan, Head of the
Armenian delegation to PACE, because, being the head of the
delegation, he has his share of the blame in Postanjyan posing her
question [to the President in Strasbourg].
`These days Harutyunyan is trying to come up with models toward
reshaping the composition of the delegation. In response to
Zhoghovurd's query, he neither denied nor confirmed this news. He
solely said no changes have yet been made in the makeup of the
Armenian delegation to PACE.
``I assume that yes, there will be a change, but I cannot say in what
means,'' Zhoghovurd writes.
To note, during the question and answer session at the PACE plenary
session in Strasbourg, France, on October 2, Zaruhi Postanjyan had
asked Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan the following question:
`You have appeared here [in the PACE session] not by the will of the
people, but [rather] as a consequence of organized crime, the theft of
the Armenian people's vote. Therefore you cannot de jure represent the
will and right of the Armenian people. [So,] I'll give you another
question. Have you been to a casino in Europe and lost 70 million
euros there? And who paid that amount in your stead?'
News from Armenia - NEWS.am
October 19, 2013 | 08:45
YEREVAN. - Armenia's National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan
is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Following the well-known scandal inStrasbourg by opposition Heritage
Party NA Faction Secretary Zaruhi Postanjyan who is also a member of
NA delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE), Abrahamyan had announced that he will remove her from the
delegation.
But this plan of his cannot be implemented without noise, Zhoghovurd
daily reports.
`And, now, the [ruling Republican Party] RPA members are attempting to
develop legally invulnerable mechanisms [to this end].
`Abrahamyan has assigned this job to Davit Harutyunyan, Head of the
Armenian delegation to PACE, because, being the head of the
delegation, he has his share of the blame in Postanjyan posing her
question [to the President in Strasbourg].
`These days Harutyunyan is trying to come up with models toward
reshaping the composition of the delegation. In response to
Zhoghovurd's query, he neither denied nor confirmed this news. He
solely said no changes have yet been made in the makeup of the
Armenian delegation to PACE.
``I assume that yes, there will be a change, but I cannot say in what
means,'' Zhoghovurd writes.
To note, during the question and answer session at the PACE plenary
session in Strasbourg, France, on October 2, Zaruhi Postanjyan had
asked Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan the following question:
`You have appeared here [in the PACE session] not by the will of the
people, but [rather] as a consequence of organized crime, the theft of
the Armenian people's vote. Therefore you cannot de jure represent the
will and right of the Armenian people. [So,] I'll give you another
question. Have you been to a casino in Europe and lost 70 million
euros there? And who paid that amount in your stead?'
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