NO INTERIM REPORT ON MARCH 1 EVENTS
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[08:27 pm] 30 September, 2008
President of the NA committee on the March 1 events Samvel Nikoyan
and ARF deputy Artsvik Minasyan visited today the Nubarashen prison
and met with Suren Sirunyan who was sentenced to jail as a result of
the March 1 events. Sirunyan informed the deputies that he has not
been questioned since May and that he considers his accusation based
on article 300 of the Criminal Code as nonsensical.
The results of the meeting with Sirunyan will possibly be known
during the next parliamentary session. As for now, president of
the committee Samvel Mikoyan told "A1+" that they will receive
clarifications regarding Sirunyan’s questions from the head of the
discussion group. In fact, Nikoyan is not planning on presenting an
interim report. It is very possible that there will be no interim
report because it is a matter of time. The National Assembly must
present the final report on October 25. "I personally don’t feel
the need to present an interim report judging from the fact that a
group has been created to gather the facts. It would be right for the
committee to make a conclusion based on the final documents," told
"A1+" Samvel Nikoyan. He added that he would wait to collect all of
the data and then draw conclusions.
In fact, by the end of October, it is possible that the committee will
not meet the deadline set by the NA for presenting the conclusion. "If
the parliament forms a group to gather the facts and that group is
actually busy with gathering the facts for the committee, then the
parliament has to postpone the deadline; otherwise nobody would
understand why the committee is presenting a conclusion while the
group is still gathering the facts," said the president of the March
1 events committee.