STRIVING OF CONSOLIDATION OF ARMENIAN VOLUNTEERS TO PROVIDE TRANSPARENCY OF ELECTIONS WAS REASON OF ARREST OF ORGANIZATION’S ACTIVISTS, ARMEN AGHAYAN CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 18 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. "Soon the video recording
of speeches of Zhirayr Sefilian and Vardan Malkhasian will be
presented to the public. This recording became a basis for accusing
the latters of the attempt of coup d’etat. And you will be convinced
that these speeches could not be a reason for arrests." Armen Aghayan,
representative of the Consolidation of of Armenian Volunteers (CAV)
organization, Political Secretary of Defence of Liberated Territories
public initiative, declared at the December 16 press conference. He
said that one of the main tasks of CAV is to provide transparency of
the elections. In his words, if the opposition was able to prevent mass
falsifications at the referendum on constitutional amendments, today
CAV would not be engaged in issues of control over the forthcoming
elections. "Our task is to provide fair political processes for the
Armenian people to solve issues of its future itself," A.Aghayan
declared. In his words, the very activity of CAV became the reason of
such aggressive actions of the authorities who arrested Z.Sefilian and
V.Malkhasian. He characterized the actions of the National Security
Service as negligent. In particular, in his words, the searches at
apartments of organization’s activists were held very negligently. "One
can judge about the essence of the National Security Service only by
the fact that Dzerzhinski’s portraits hang on the walls of the offices
of Security Service employees up to present," A.Aghayan declared.