"DAMNATION ISN’T A POLITICAL CATEGORY"
Margaret Yesayan

Aravot, Armenia
Oct 24 2006

NA vice chairman Vahan Hovhannisian reminds.

The Parliament was completely against parliamentarian Tatul
Manaserian’s legislative initiative to form a temporary commission
for discussing Armenian Genocide issues. Factually, the parliament
was against the government, too as the government approved the
parliamentarian’s proposal. But as it was found out, the government
didn’t express any positive opinion and the minister of justice had
said himself that the government was for that proposal. NA chairman
made an exclusive decision to discuss that issue out of package,
separately: "I share my partners’ anxiety that the formation of such
commission will give our neighbor countries an opportunity to say
that this parliament of Armenia does what they were proposing. It
is even written that the conception of Armenian Genocide must be
specified. What must we specify, the idea of this commission’s
formation is inadmissible for me." The NA vice chairman noticed:
"As an experienced person I should say that the temporary commissions
aren’t so effective in our society because discrepancies inside it
become the public ownership, are reflected in the newspapers and
create an atmosphere from which we will only suffer."

The discussion of refused law about "Higher Interest" was more
emotional. The NA chairman said in his speech that "irrespective of
anyone’s whish, the law makes us discuss this package during this
four-day sitting, we should simply improve the draft." The government
brings a draft to the parliament for which the majority doesn’t vote.

It isn’t known yet why the government insists on the adoption of
that draft, this problem has become the part of show, and people
gathered in front of the parliament, who were exiled from their homes
on Buzand street not getting any valuable compensation for it, were
demanding from the parliamentarians not to adopt the draft. "Justice"
and OEP factions were against that draft as usual. Hovhannes Margarian
reminded that one of the exiled inhabitants damned those who exiled
them, represent the law and adopt it. Vahan Hovhannisian suggested;
"Don’t make damnation as a political category because the curse has
already been made."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress