TOROSYAN’S "BURDEN IS HEAVY"

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[08:29 pm] 22 June, 2006

TIGRAN TOROSYAN IS LOOKING FOR A SUBSTITUTOR

NA Speaker Tigran Torosyan wants to resign from the post of the PACE RA
delegation head as he thinks there are "certain problems the solution
of which is connected with his stay in Armenia."

Then he adds that "there is another matter of serious concern;"
4 reports on Armenia will be heard in the PACE, starting from the
NKR conflict and ending with the issue of our liabilities. "We must
realize whom we appoint and who is to take that heavy burden on his
shoulders." By the way, the head of the delegation is appointed by
the NA Speaker that’s to say by Tigran Torosyan.

No question connected with Armenia will be discussed during the June
session of PACE but as Torosyan claims "the Azerbaijanis will somehow
connect the matters concerning them with Karabakh and Armenia." "It
is their business, but we must be ready for everything," said NA
Speaker Tigran Torosyan during his first press release. The issue
of the Azeri liabilities will be discussed at the coming session in
connection with the May parliamentary reelections. The session of
Standing Committee on the Karabakh issue will be convened during the
PACE June session during which Torosyan’s suggestion to change the
format of the committee will likely be affirmed and the committee
members will be reduced as a result.

TURKS WILL BE TURKS

"Turkey doesn’t respect the principles professed by the country and
on the bases of these principles the country wants to integrate into
the European family completely," maintains NA Speaker. An excellent
testify to it is yesterday’s incident when eggs were thrown at the
cars meeting the Catholicos of All Armenians in Istanbul.

"The issue of religious freedom will be put on the agenda of the
forthcoming PACE session and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdoghan is to make a speech. I wonder how he will comment on this
situation. This action characterizes the Turks and has nothing to do
with the supreme Patriarch of All Armenians."

TOROSYAN PREFFER SOCHI

None of the RA NA deputies will be present at the seminar organized
by Rose Road on "Russia- NATO; security issues in South Caucasus"
in the scope of NATO which will be convened in Sochi on June 22 – 24.

In Tigran Torosyan’s words this is conditioned by Mher Shageldyan’s
resignation from the post of the RA delegation head in the NATO
Parliamentary Assembly. At first NA Speaker learned about the
resignation from the newspapers and then he got Mher Shageldyan’s
application. The latter informed through the media that his
resignation is to certain extent determined by the fact that Tigran
Torosyan hindered his visit to the USA in the framework of the NATO
Parliamentary Assembly.

Today Mr. Torosyan informed that he attaches greater importance to
the Sochi seminar as it will refer to the Karabakh issue.