LEVON TER-PETROSIAN’S ANNOUNCEMENT

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[07:45 pm] 09 November, 2007

On the case of the "Karabakh Committee"

"Following my request in 1995 or 1996, Armenia’s Prosecutor-General
Artavazd Gevorgian sent the Karabakh Committee case to the Presidential
Palace for the purpose of further putting it for display at a museum
of the Karabakh movement that was to be opened in 1998, on the tenth
anniversary of the movement," Ter-Petrossian said. "After the change of
power, all materials of the Karabakh Committee case were transferred
to my personal archive and have been kept there to date. None of the
prosecutor-generals that succeeded Artavazd Gevorgian in office have
requested that I shall return the materials. I still think that the
most appropriate place for keeping these materials is a museum of
the Karabakh movement, which will be opened sooner or later. But if
there is any necessity, I am ready to return them immediately to the
archives of the prosecutor’s office."

Levon Ter-Petrossian

9.11.2007

Armenian Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian on Friday announced that
the files pertaining to a criminal investigation launched in 1988
into the activities of the Karabakh Committee are now kept by former
president Levon Ter-Petrossian, a leading member of the Committee
and one of the accused in the notorious criminal case.

Hovsepian further revealed that Ter-Petrossian ordered the case to
be provided to him still when he served as president.

"I had ordered for the case to be taken from the archives and given
to me, but it turned out that the case was missing.

"What was done in 1996 was a gross violation of the law as even the
president of the republic is not entitled to request and keep criminal
cases," Hovespian said.