THERE WAS SHOOTING AT THE OFFICE OF BARGAVACH HAYASTAN IN ABOVYAN TOWN

Lragir, Armenia
Dec 21 2006

The leader of the Nor Zhamanakner Party Aram Karapetyan questioned
the activities of the National security of Armenia and the law
enforcement agencies during the meeting of the anti-criminal movement
on December 21. According to him, these activities arouse more answers
than give answers on the threats against the state. Aram Karapetyan
particularly dwelled on the statement of the leader of the National
Security Service Gorik Hakobyan that the National Security Service
has arrested a foreign spy named Valakhmetov.

Aram Karapetyan asks why the National Security Service fails to
announce which country’s citizen Valakhmetov is. He thinks that
Valakhmetov cannot be Azerbaijani because an Azerbaijani citizen would
not work in Armenia with an Azerbaijani passport. "If Valakhmetov,
because the surname suggests that he could be from the North Caucasus,
we are not sure, is a citizen of Russia, how about the agreement
that two countries, Russia or the countries of the CIS, should not
spy each other?" Aram Karapetyan asks.

He is surprised about the innumerable medals that the president and
the leaders of the law enforcement agencies gave Gorik Hakobyan and
other NSS officers on the day of the National Security Officer.

"Maybe it was an effort of encouraging the arrests," says Aram
Karapetyan. He means the arrest of Jirair Sefilyan and Vardan
Malkhasyan by the National Security Service.

"Aren’t we thereby becoming closer to Chaushesku’s regime, or the
regimes of Latin America where awards were pledged for the head of an
oppositionist and were paid?" asks the leader of the Nor Zhamanakner
Party.

He also had questions for the National Security and law enforcement
agencies on the fresh examples. Aram Karapetyan is interested whether
the law enforcement agencies and the National Security work as hard
to investigate the murder of the mayor of the village of Nalbandyan.

"Are the law enforcement agencies aware that 20 days ago the office
of the Bargavach Hayastan Party in Abovyan was attacked, there was
shooting, then people drove away in their cars? Did they say who they
are and where they are waiting for the leadership of the political
party?" asks Aram Karapetyan saying that the government never reacts
and denies the mentioned facts. As a recent example, Aram Karapetyan
mentions the recent order to the police force. According to him,
the internal force was ordered to be ready to repress and prevent
every mass public protest connected with the election.

Aram Karapetyan says he will release more detailed information after
the news is refutted officially.