YEREVAN. – For three months, we have been proposing to set up a fact-finding group and examine the pre-war period, the war management process, the armament in the pre-war period, the course of negotiations, and present a relevant report to the people. Edmon Marukyan, chairman of the opposition Bright Armenia Party and head of its parliamentary faction, said this at Wednesday’s National Assembly (NA) question and answer session with the government.
He addressed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan regarding this draft. And Pashinyan responded that, according to this draft, a parity committee would set up, which he had studied and seen that according to that draft, the committee would be formed by 70% from the political forces that have already given all the answers—from various tribunes—to those questions. "That is, if there is a need for an investigation for those forces, why have they already published the conclusions? Last time we also tried to invite you to a discussion on that topic, but you did not consider it necessary to come and for that discussion to take place. You say there is a collision, a criminal case is initiated. At the moment, there are more than a thousand criminal cases under investigation related to the war, which are being investigated. The political mechanism of the investigation is clearly set in the current legislation, and that mechanism is the NA inquiry committee, which can be formed in accordance with the relevant regulations of the legislation.”
And referring to the disclosure of the truth about the recent Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war, PM Pashinyan said: "I believe at least the truth about the war has been discussed sufficiently, and I unequivocally agree with you that it must be clarified to the last detail. It is not that those criminal cases have given the answers to the necessary questions, but everything must be done to give the answers to those questions.”