American congressman Adam Schiff worries about development of situation
in the post-election Armenia
2008-05-27 17:01:00
ArmInfo. American congressman Adam Schiff said in an interview with
Radio Liberty that he worries about development of situation in the
post-election Armenia. , – Schiff said.
Asked if he thinks there are political prisoners in Armenia, American
congressman replied that the Department of State worries about the fact
that there are prisoners in the country which had been detained because
of making speeches during the political campaign in the republic as
well as because of expressing their own viewpoints. This is not a
ground to arrest them. People cannot be arrested for expression of
their views, Schiff said.
Asked if the USA may impose pressure upon the Armenian authorities
trying to stop fulfillment of "Millennium Challenges" programme, the
congressman replied: ‘I think it will be a big tragedy if the programme
is stopped, since it is a very important programme. It will be shameful
if fulfillment of the programme may fail because of the problem of
democratizing of the republic’, – he said and added there has never
been such a precedent in the history of the programme fulfillment.