RELATIVES SET OUT DEMANDS TO PACE

A1Plus.am
25/01/10

As reported earlier today, RA Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan
has removed Heritage Party member Zaruhy Bostanjyan from the list
of permanent members of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Relatives of the victims of the March 1st events today staged a
protest action near the Yerevan Office of the Council of Europe in
support of Zaruhy Postanjyan.

They protested against the NA Speaker’s decision finding it illegal
and inhuman.

"Zaruhy Postanjyan was the only person who represented our interests in
the Parliamentary Assembly. We apply to PACE leadership to annul the
decision and restore Zaruhy Postanjyan’s rights in the delegation,"
said the protesters.

"Two years have passed since the deadly clashes of March 1 but the
murderers of our children are still in freedom. The authorities
only care for concealing the real perpetrators. By removing Zaruhy
Postanjyan from the delegation the authorities aim to putty the
assassinations. We do not confide in Armen Rustamyan who has never
raised our concerns in the Assembly," Sargis Kloyan, the father of
deceased Gor Kloyan, told A1+.

"I think that PACE will be consecutive in the disclosure of the
events," said the mother of deceased David Petrosyan, Jemma Vardumyan.

"The authorities could have disclosed the murders within these two
years if they wished to. How can we trust Armen Rustamyan, head of
the Armenian delegation to PACE, if he never presented our complaints
to PACE? Dashnaktsutyun hasn’t even condoled with us over the decease
of our sons," said Robert Harutyunyan.

The protesters were also indignant at Hovik Abrahamyan’s statement that
"the page of March 1 was closed."

"If his son were killed, would he make such a statement? I think he
would put the whole nation to the sword. None of the authorities
cares for our people, they only care for their chairs," said Rima
Khachatryan.

Though Hovik Abrahamyan had ordered not to finance Mrs. Postanjyan’s
travel to Strasbourg, the latter left for Strasbourg today with the
financial support of PACE.