RUSTAMIAN SAYS PACE RESOLUTION BALANCED

Yerkir
30.06.2009 15:11

Yerevan (Yerkir) – Armen Rustamian has said that while the March 2008
events were in the core of the amnesty but it was incomplete, leaving
"tails" which are going to cause serious problems for our country.

Rustamian, the chairman of the National Assembly’s Foreign Relations
Committee, said that the amnesty had a political context aimed at
March 1-2 events. "We have left some ‘tails" that will cause serious
problems in future. I am sure the reservations do not go in line with
the spirit and essence of the amnesty," he told a news conference
on June 30. He added that the amnesty should have applied to all the
defendants in the March 1 case.

He said he shared the expert findings of the PACE monitoring commission
that political speculations inside the fact-finding group became the
reason why the group was dissolved. He added that both the government
and the opposition had to be blamed for this. He also said that as a
result separate reports to be filed by the group members would leave
the parliamentary commission to draw conclusions.

Speaking of Zaruhi Postanjian’s statement that he did not join her
proposal, Rustamian said. "If not mentioning any other reason, I can’t
see me in a group with Ms Hajibaili who is a staunch anti-Armenian. I
don’t believe that Azerbaijanis are sincere i n helping bring democracy
to Armenia."