Lragir, Armenia
Jan 11 2008

FORUM OF INTELLIGENTSIA DEMANDS INVITING PRIME MINISTER’S BROTHER AND
EDITOR OF OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER

On January 11 the member of the board of the forum of intelligentsia
made an interesting statement. They referred to the news in the
December 27 issue of the Haykakan Zhamanak Newspaper that Serge
Sargsyan’s brother, Member of Parliament Sashik Sargsyan had stated
in the presence of a group of people: `We did in so many people in
parliament not to give away power that easily. If we need, we’ll do
in others.’

The board of the Forum of Intelligentsia, `indignant with this
statement’, proposes that the board of the Legitimate President 2008
civil initiative invite Member of Parliament Sashik Sargsyan and the
editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak Newspaper Nichol Pashinyan to one of
its upcoming meetings to have this information confirmed or refuted,
as well as to appeal to the Prosecutor General to bring charges
against either Sashik Sargsyan or Nichol Pashinyan.

The authors of the statement are members of the Board of the Forum of
Intelligentsia Ohan Duryan, Yervand Manaryan, Hrachia Matevosyan,
Robert Karayan.