Former chairman of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) of Armenia, Davit Ananyan, also visited Monday Freedom Square where Artur Vanetsyan, the leader of the "With Honor" Faction of the National Assembly, is on a sit-in, and two young men who fought in the 44-day Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war in the fall of 2020 are on a hunger strike.
"It's no surprise I'm here. I came to salute my friends and go," Ananyan told reporters.
Asked whether—former National Security Service chief—Artur Vanetsyan is his friend, Ananyan responded: "Of course. He is my good friend—from work. If my greeting did not have an element of support, I could have [just] called over the phone and say ‘hello.’ I have never been involved in active politics; consider this as my civic duty. I came, greeted my friends, now I am going to work."
Ananyan added, however, that he is naturally concerned about the situation in Armenia. According to the former SRC chief, there are probably no words in the human lexicon that will accurately describe the situation in the country.
"The situation is not good, to put it mildly," he said.
And to the question whether he demands a change of power in Armenia and whether that will be the beginning of saving the country, Davit Ananyan answered: "The change of power should have been willingly, on the morning of November 10 [2020]. This is my position which I do not renounce until now as well."
Earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am reported that Artur Vanetsyan, the leader of the "With Honor" Faction of the National Assembly of Armenia, on Sunday announced the start of protests—and with no term or end—at Freedom Square in downtown Yerevan. Sometime thereafter, Nver Kirakosyan and Artur Avagyan, two participants of the 44-day Artsakh war in the fall of 2020, announced a hunger strike, and they came to Freedom Square Monday morning.