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    Emil Lazarian
  • 2 years ago
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PM Pashinyan seeks public questioning into war, plans to reveal details on not signing truce in October 2020

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 16:05,

YEREVAN, APRIL 18, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on April 18 that he wants his questioning in the parliamentary ad hoc commission investigating the circumstances of the 44-Day War to be public. He said he plans to reveal why he didn’t sign a document on ending the war on October 19th, 2020, which the Russian President Vladimir Putin also spoke about.

“We’ve agreed, and assumed obligation, that I must be heard in the investigative committee,” Pashinyan said in parliament when asked by MP Vahagn Aleksanyan.

“I’m asking the commission chairman Andranik Kocharyan whether or not the opposition will come. He says he doesn’t know, that perhaps they won’t. Well, all right, let’s say we came, people would say that the opposition wasn’t there, they came and discussed all by themselves and left,” Pashinyan said.

He added that discussions are underway to find an option for the questioning to be public.

“The foreign ministry raises its issues here, the interior ministry too. I’m thinking, if I come and speak at the commission, and my speech gets classified top secret and is kept in a safe, the opposition will boycott and people will say it was a cover up,” he said, adding that he realizes the risks.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS