HEGHINE BISHARIAN: EVERY DAY AUTHORITIES SPEND AS MUCH MONEY AT RESTAURANTS AS IT WAS FOUND AT ALEXANDER ARZUMANIAN’S APARTMENT

Noyan Tapan
May 09 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The publication of overheard talk of
Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) Party Chairman Artur Baghdasarian and
Deputy Head of mission of Great Britain in Armenia Richard Hyde not
only failed to have a negative impact on party’s rating, but also
had a wonderful positive influence: the number of OYP supporters
increased. Heghine Bisharian, OYP Vice-Chairwoman, stated at the May
9 press conference. In her words, the greatest share of political
pressures among opposition parties falls to Orinats Yerkir. One of
those pressures, as she characterized, is overhearing telephones of
OYP members’ apartments. I am a woman and maybe I talk about such
things with another woman that no one should hear," H. Bisharian
said. She added that she cannot apply to the court in this connection,
"as the laws do not work in Armenia."

The OYP Vice-Chairwoman said that their party condemns the arrest
of former RA Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanian. According to
H. Bisharian’s observation, the current political system reminds of
1937 Stalin dictatorship.

"Can’t a person receive sums from abroad, maybe even breathing
is forbidden?," H. Bisharian stated. In her words, every day the
authorities spend as much money at restaurants as it was found at
A. Arzumanian’s apartment.