Colleagues send Hmayak Hovhannissian to Hollywood
By Karine Mangasarian

Yerkir/arm
25 March 05

The reason for this decision is the funeral ceremony organized by
Hovhannissian yesterday in the National Assembly. Performed at the
best of his artistic skills he brought a wreath with a black ribbon
and placed it in front of the National Assembly session hall.
Hovhannissian organized this funeral ceremony to commemorate the death
of the political coalition.

He believes the coalition has died because the political forces
forming it did not participate in the discussion on returning the bank
savings of 700,000 Armenians deposited to the savings bank of the
Armenian SSR. Hovhannissian was the initiator of the failed discussion
and believed `the issue could be discussed in a normal environment’.

While Hmayak Hovhannissian was busy giving interviews and explaining
his initiative deputy Hakob Hakobian suggested he could ask Artak
Arakelian, a deputy from Orinats Yerkir’s parliamentary faction, to
sing a beautiful song on this occasion.

Head of the parliamentary faction of Republican Party of Armenia
Galust Sahakian said he had ordered duduk music for the funeral at the
same time calling this initiative an act of political populists whose
actions have ridiculous consequences.

`This is a tragic event because a political show on returning the
population’ s bank savings has started. This is not a proper way of
returning bank savings,’ Sahakian said noting that the only way to
solve this issue is to work well.

`We have to work well and create opportunities for retuning the bank
savings. If we unite merely for the purpose of gaining political
profits before the elections we will end up cheating the population
again. It is not a moral act, to put it mildly, when the political
forces or individual leaders build their further political careers on
cheating,’ Sahakian concluded.

Meanwhile, Hmayak Hovhannissian was so excited about his own
initiative that speaking about his future plans he declared that he
was going to organize another funeral ceremony with participation of a
larger number of people. The deputy never mentioned how he was going
to return the bank savings and where he would get money for returning
them.

P.S.- It would be great if the National Assembly deputies could be at
least as enthusiastic when participating in the parliamentary
discussions as they were when exchanging jokes about the funeral
wreath.