"I SHOULD LIVE IN RA ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORY LONGER THAN ROBERT
KOCHARIAN AND SERZH SARGSYAN," SARGIS HATSPANIAN SAYS
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. "I have never violated any law, have
respected Armenia’s statehood and as a free person sometimes expressed
a civil position," French Armenian Sargis Hatspanian, a former
freedom-fighter, stated at the October 16 press conference. He affirmed
that former RA President Robert Kocharian signed an order on
expatriating him from Armenia in March only for his publicly supporting
first RA President Levon Ter-Petrosian. S. Hatspanian said that as far
back as in 1998 he applied to the proper bodies with the request to
grant him citizenship of Armenia but was refused with the motivation
that he had not lived permanently in Armenia for 10 years. "Now I am
declaring that I should live in RA’s administrative territory longer
than R. Kocharian and Serzh Sargsyan," the former freedom-fighter said.
According to S. Hatspanian, he took part in rallies and sit-down strike
organized in the last decade of February in Liberty Square to express
his protest together with hundreds of thousands of citizens against the
riggings committed in the February presidential elections. "When S.
Hatspanian went to Karabakh to fight he was good, but when he started
protesting against falsifications he became bad," the former
freedom-fighter said.