Yerevan August 7
Tatevik Shahunyan. ''The statement by the ARF Dashnaktsutyun party regarding Robert Kocharyan's arrest is unclear for me," RA Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan said at the Facebook press conference today, referring to the ARFD statement that Kocharyan's arrest causes deep concern and can be considered as a political persecution.
He also said that behavior of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun MPs and the "Tsarukyan" bloc, with which the "Yelk" party forms the government, who signed the petition on changing the measure of restraint of Kocharyan, must be carefully analyzed. "Based on this analysis, we will come to an appropriate conclusion on the issue of further cooperation with our partners: the matter concerns reducing or increasing the vote of confidence," he concluded.
To note, 46 MPs of the Armenian parliament signed a petition on changing the preventive measure against Kocharyan. In addition to the Republican Party MPs, there are three Dashnaktsutyun representatives and one from Tsarukyan bloc among the signatories. By the way, each MP who signed the petition obliged to pay 500 thousand drams as a pledge to release Kocharyan under a guarantee. Thus, the MPs are ready to pay a pledge of 230 million drams in total for Kocharyan.
