Newspaper: How did Armenia ex-President Sargsyan get permission to leave country?

News.am, Armenia
March 6 2020

09:23, 06.03.2020
                  

YEREVAN. – Hraparak daily of Armenia writes: [Ex-President] Serzh Sargsyan left for Brussels on a working visit the day before, where he met with EPP President Donald Tusk.

How did Serzh Sargsyan [who is a defendant in a criminal case] bypass the signature-restraint not to leave [the country]? We asked his [legal] defender Amram Makinyan.

"Legal regulation implies that it is impossible to leave the country without the permission of the body conducting the proceedings. Since the third president had a pre-planned working visit, we have petitioned to the body conducting the proceedings in accordance with the law to obtain permission to leave the country; we have received. ” They could not have allowed it." We had justified the purpose of the visit."

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