ACCORDING TO ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER, REPORTED FACTS ABOUT FIGHT
BETWEEN MINISTER AND DEPUTY DISTORTED

YEREVAN, MAY 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Responding to reporters’ questions at
the RA National Assembly on May 26, RA Prime Minister Andranik
Margarian said that distorted facts were presented in the press
reports that after the May 25 NA meeting, Minister of Territorial
Administration Hovik Abrahamian and NA deputy Aramais Grigorian had an
argument followed by a fight. According to Prime Minister, the two
above mentioned persons just had a talk, during which H. Abrahamian,
defending the governmemt’s position, told the deputy that “especially
representatives of the coaltion’s parties should settle issues in a
human way.” A. Margarian noted that the matter was not of state
importance but just concerned ordinary businessmen. As for the fight,
according to Prime Minister, he was assured that no such thing had
happened. In his opinion, neither the minister nor the deputy are to
blame, but they should have settled their differences in some other
place rather than at the National Assembly in front of reporters. The
government has no intention to respond to these media reports,
otherwise, according to Prime Minister, “we will constantly be
involved in arguments with newspapers.”