SARGSYAN’S WORDS ARE NOT ACTIONS

22/heritage
December 22, 2009

According to deputy of "Heritage" faction Anahit Bakhshyan, Serzh
Sargsyan’s words stating that smart minds must be heard and actions
must be implemented are not reality, but simply statements. According
to Bakhshyan, a striking illustration of that was when the president
"seemed to agree with the faction on their legislative initiatives,
while the majority in parliament did the opposite and rejected them."

Recapping the activities of the faction today, head of the "Heritage"
faction Stepan Safaryan mentioned that out of the bills that
they authored, the parliament only adopted the bills on education
and culture, while the bills on changes in the political system,
deprivation of lands, recognition of independence of the NKR and
other bills were not.

In general, in 2009 "Heritage" presented 29 bills of which only few
were adopted. "This shows the political will of the authorities to
listen to opponents," said Stepan Safaryan. He doesn’t consider the
"investment, efforts and suffering" as inadequate to the outcome.

The report presented today to journalists did not include the
activities completed by member of the faction Vardan Khachatryan. The
reason, according to head of the faction, was merely technical because
Safaryan’s assistant had not managed to present the deputy’s activities
in due time.

Deputy of the faction Larisa Alaverdyan informed that she had appealed
to the government with the suggestion to mark the 20th anniversary
of the massacres in Baku at the state level and organize different
events. She announced that those events, which have not been paid
attention to and about which there are no official statistics must
definitely be qualified as genocide.
From: Baghdasarian