PARLIAMENTARY INTERIM COMMISSION FOR MARCH INCIDENTS TO APPLY TO PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA FOR AMNESTY ANNOUNCEMENT

ArmInfo
2009-06-04 14:08:00

ArmInfo. Parliamentary Interim Commission to study the incidents
of March 1-2 in Yerevan is going to submit an application to the
President of Armenia for amnesty announcement, Artsvik Minasyan,
parliamentarian from ARFD, a member of the Interim Commission, said
at the meeting of the Interim Commission on Thursday.

‘Representatives of the Interim Commission have repeatedly come out for
softening of the domestic political situation. In addition, amnesty
is among the recommendations of PACE resolution’, Minasyan said. He
highlighted the necessity of announcing amnesty not only for the
arrestees after the March incidents, but also in general. ‘Since the
circumstances of the death of 10 people are still unknown, we propose
that amnesty is not applied to those charged with the death of those
10 people’, A. Minasyan said. For his part, another representative of
the Interim Commission Naira Zohrabyan proposed that the statement
lays stress on the March incidents since the current tense domestic
political situation is the result of the very incidents.

Another representative of the Interim Commission, Leader of New Times
Party Aram Karapetyan said: ‘I am against this political document
since the Interim Commission comprises representatives of political
forces that could independently present the stands of their parties
regarding the amnesty announcement. In addition, I am surprised at the
fact that a person empowered to announce amnesty proposes political
forces to make a relevant statement’.

Earlier on May 28 President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan called on
political figures, parties and the Public Council for applying to
the presidential residence for amnesty announcement.